Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Stephen Jay Gould

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

Paul Lynde

If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.

Will Rogers, July 15, 1923

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

Ben Stiller

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

Steven Seagal

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

Orson Scott Card

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Albert Einstein

That's the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can't always have that. You're gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won't be the most popular person in the house.

Martina McBride

No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass.

John Marshall

Be positive and laugh at everything.

Alexandra Roach

If you're gonna take the audience on a life long ride, you've got to allow them to become intimate with you. If they're not intimate, they're never gonna know you.

Blackie Lawless

If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

Barbara Corcoran