I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.

Danica McKellar

If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.

Michel de Montaigne

Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil.

Rabindranath Tagore

I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.

Jenny Eclair

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

James Fenton

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Epictetus

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Terry Pratchett

To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.

Proverb

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

Max Lerner

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Don Marquis

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

Jesse Jackson

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Oscar Wilde