I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.

Charles Schumer

Imagine that. You just can't let your entire life go by worrying about your damned thighs. You'd never find happiness.

Sarah Gilbert

You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.

Lou Brock, In Late Innings, by R

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Isaac Newton

And as for the unbelievers, their works are as a mirage in a spacious plain which the man athirst supposes to be water, till when he comes to it, he finds it is nothing; there indeed he finds God, and He pays him his account in full; (and God is swift at the reckoning).

Qur'an

A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Johann von Goethe

It is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

James Russell Lowell, regarding

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Quintilian

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

Kyan Douglas

The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.

Margaret Atwood

I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Bernard Berenson