There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

Norm Dicks

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefeller

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

William Peter Blatty

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

Frederik Pohl

I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

Stephanie Mills

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

Peter Singer

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Adam Smith

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

John Updike

One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.

Vito Fossella

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

Kevin Smith

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

Jane Austen

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave

Samuel Hoffenstein