I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When you let people into the inner sanctum of your life, you risk having them see the heart of you. (from Vanishing Acts)

Jodi Picoult

Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

Ralph Nader

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

Frances Wright

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Tobias G. Smollett

The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is their gray head.

Bible

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

Nicole Kidman

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek Proverb

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

Gavyn Davies

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

J. Robert Oppenheimer