The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

Johnny Mathis

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Maya Lin

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.

C.S. Lewis

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Ernest Hemingway

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

Michael Kinsley

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

Sargent Shriver

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Robert Southey

Not as men of science, not as critics, not as philosophers, but as little children, shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven.

John Campbell Shairp

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

Ronald Reagan

I love the sport of snowboarding so much, but I just don't want to talk about it, ever.

Shaun White

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

George Sand

I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.

Jeff Bridges