Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

Nothing excited me more than opening up the atlas and seeing places and seas, imagining what they looked like and what kind of life the people had.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Bill Gates

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.

Abraham Lincoln

Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas.

Erica Jong, The narrator (Isador

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Leonardo DaVinci

Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.

Orson Scott Card

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Jimmy Carter

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

Felix Frankfurter

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.

Donald Trump

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

Oscar Wilde

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

Harriet Martineau

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Samuel Butler