Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Salman Rushdie

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

Yancy Butler

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Baron William Henry Beveridge

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

Neil Diamond

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

Madeleine Albright

The world is going to need all of the different kinds of minds to work together.

Temple Grandin

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

Imelda Marcos

People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

Lee Hazlewood

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.

Virginia Woolf

I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.

Lisa Scottoline

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

Ronald Reagan