After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Charles Dickens

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

George H. W. Bush

There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.

Tom Vilsack

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

John Donne

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

Naguib Mahfouz

I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you.

Seve Ballesteros

I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.

Larry Bird

The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me.

George Bernard Shaw

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny

Henry David Thoreau

Tidings do I bring, and lucky joys, And golden times, and happy news of price

William Shakespeare

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Martin Heidegger

In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.

Chad Smith