Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

It's amazing how good getting up and moving makes you feel.

Paula Deen

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

Anthony Robbins

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that theres nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

Terry Pratchett

The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth.

Frank Luntz

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

Ira Levin

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

Studs Terkel

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

Dan Quayle

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

Grover Norquist

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lucky Charms are like the vampires of breakfast cereal. They're magical, they're delicious, they're a little bit dangerous and bad for you. They initially make you feel great, but then over time you realize that maybe your relationship with Lucky Charms is just a little bit unhealthy and you start to think, 'Maybe I don't want to be in a long-term relationship with a breakfast cereal that tastes delicious but damages my health.' But then the Lucky Charms gets all stalker on you and for some reason you kind of like that. It makes you feel special. So yeah, you spend your life with Lucky Charms. That's awesome. That's a great way to... get diabetes.

John Green

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

Thomas Friedman

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Karl Lagerfeld