I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

Arthur Schopenhauer, The World a

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

Julie Andrews

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Voltaire

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

Agnes De Mille

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

Dave Barry

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than raising of the next generation.

C. Everett Koop

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

Thomas Carlyle

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Christian Nevell Bovee

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Richard Saunders