I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.

The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.

Bill Richardson

I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.

Robert Carlyle

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Gerald R. Ford

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

Garrett Hardin

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

Shelby Foote

But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

Lascelles Abercrombie

There are times that people can be so blinded by what they want IT to be, that whatever reality they perceieve it SHOULD be, they lose.

Jared Matthew Kessler

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

Graham Greene

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

Robert Carlyle

I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.

Mary Ellen Mark