Surviving ain't thriving.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Vernon Grounds

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

Ehud Olmert

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.

Allen Klein

I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs that don't fit, the whole works--is simply asking too much of a reader. Something happening in a phony way must beat nothing happening in a phony way every time, right? I mean, you could prove that, mathematically, in an equation, and you can't often apply science to literature.

Nick Hornby

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

Aldrich Ames

Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.

Ethel Merman

O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!--Hamlet (I, v, 106)

William Shakespeare

Liberals fought poverty and poverty won.

Ronald Reagan

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Bernard Baruch

Victor Vigny: A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.Conor Broekhart: Which resembles a giant banana.

Eoin Colfer

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Giacomo Casanova

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

C. Northcote Parkinson