At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

Lynne Cheney

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

Jane Mayer

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

Karl Lagerfeld

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

Steve Jobs

Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

Thomas Traherne

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney J. Harris

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS -- our inferior one varies with the place.

Thomas Paine

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Marilyn Monroe

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

Willful waste brings woeful want.

Thomas Fuller

For me, writing is immortality. It is wisdom. It is never-ending.

Alecia Stone