When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

Ken Burns

I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.

Tori Spelling

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Richard Hooker

I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,if there were not a friend?The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.

Kenny Loggins

I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.

Phil McGraw

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

Dr. Alex Carrel

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

Mary McDonnell

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Marcus Aurelius

Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.

Jodi Picoult

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.

Michel de Montaigne

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

Carl Sagan