.. it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

Richard Shelby

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

Rupert Murdoch

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Victor Hugo

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.

John Dryden

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

Rod Stewart

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

Patty Murray

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Franklin P. Jones

I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.

Susan Orlean

You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something -- that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.

Edward Steichen, Wisdom

No one likes you tar-heart baby, no one likes un-fun-ness.

Coco J. Ginger

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

My library was dukedom large enough.

William Shakespeare