You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

Maria Callas

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Anthony Trollope

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Dorothy Thompson

Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.

Reginald W. Kaufman

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Aristotle

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

Martin Lewis Perl

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

Larry Ellison

The finiteness, the dependency, and the insufficiency of man

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

Jack Reed

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

Teri Garr

He smiled, and suddenly she knew that his words were true. Everything would be all right. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but soon. Tragedy couldn't coexist in a world with one of Colin's smiles.

Julia Quinn