Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.

As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.

Mike Piazza

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Aleister Crowley

In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.

Thomas Hardy

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.

John Elway

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Robert Southey

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

Aeschylus

When He talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamor of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever.

C.S. Lewis

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the

Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.

Steve Martin

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

Pete Domenici