When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

Alan Alda

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death

Neil Gaiman

Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.

Thomas Szasz

Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on 'Food Network.'

Bobby Flay

We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.

Les Aspin

....There are many other facets to the current collapse of childhood. I have touched on the issue only briefly, but one thing is clear, our schools have deteriorated because they must deal with damaged goods. Most responsible for this damage is hospital childbirth; second comes television. Next comes day care, which fosters television and is a result of hospital childbirth. Premature schooling runs fourth. (A fifth must wait a bit for discussion.) And as our damaged children grow up and become the parents and teachers, damage will be the norm, the way of life. We will habituate to damage. Nothing else will be known. How can you miss something you can't even recognize, something you never had?

Joseph Chilton Pearce, Childhood

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

Kin Hubbard

The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.

Italian Proverb

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Jim Rohn

Three turns should do it.

J.K. Rowling

When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!

Calvin Klein

What is an unconditional state?

Asa Don Brown