All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

Dennis Ross

If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

Ralph Merkle

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Christopher Fry

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

Fred A. Allen

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Chloe Sevigny

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

Alexander Hamilton

Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing.

Steve Maraboli

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

I really don't care that I don't have what's current because whatever is at the moment, it will be infinitely better in a few months and even better months later.

William Fink

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

Tim Heidecker

A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

Lyndon B. Johnson