I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

Annie Dillard

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.

Billy Joel

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

Jackson Browne

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Andy Rooney

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.

Anne Tyler

The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.

Dick Cheney

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx. Christ: the principle of love. Marx: the principle of hate.

Joseph Goebbels

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Nelson Mandela

I think intelligence is totally subjective it's like sexiness.

David Fincher

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

Hart Crane