I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

Humphrey Bogart

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

Wynton Marsalis

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.

Sarah Jessica Parker

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Richard J. Needham

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

Ernest Hemingway

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Lewis Mumford

We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.

Peter Singer

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

Jerry Garcia

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Henry Miller

In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.

Bradley Cooper