The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.

Meg White

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Robert Frost

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.

Suzy Bogguss

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Samuel Adams

Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.

David Puttnam

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

Paul Farmer

Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.

George E. Bergman

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

Benzel Sternan

Jesus Christ turns life right-side-up, and heaven outside-in.

Carl F. H. Henry

Do not be afraid to give up the good for the great.

Kenny Rogers

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

Frederik Pohl