just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened. Wally Lamb I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc. Howard Gardner Don Knotts was a really big influence, especially on the Steve Allen show. I mean, look at the guy, his entire life is in his face. Tim Conway Rekindled love is generally short-term. Nicholas Sparks The soul's joy lies in doing. Percy Bysshe Shelley More Missourians are working than ever before. Bob Holden I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors. Jonathan Frakes

of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him. Daniel Pinkwater I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it. Dylan Moran The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity. Lucinda Franks When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live. Friedrich Nietzsche I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up. Barry Gibb If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right. Donald Rumsfeld Physiologically less violent and psychologically more...

intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world. Patrick Geddes Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. Barbara Bush I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s. Bobby Womack Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no love which does not become help. Paul Tillich The man whose authority is recent is always stern. Aeschylus The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law. Philip E. Berger

the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out. Archibald Alexander Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations. Guy Verhofstadt I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance. Benjamin Netanyahu When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts. Bo Bennett What do you despise? By this you are truly known. Michelangelo The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. Mortimer Adler I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her. Guy Ritchie

for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice. Barbara Boxer The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying. Edward Hoagland I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly. Jeff Beck Women's music is underrepresented. Beth Anderson You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. Warren Buffett Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. John Perry Barlow To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. Bill Vaughan

than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang. Ronnie Hawkins Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else. Mencius A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands. William Lyon Phelps I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead. Laura Kightlinger Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy. Trent Lott At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy. Sidney Blumenthal My biggest problem is retaining the exact information. David Cross

to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. Ida Tarbell What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. Margaret Mitchell I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. J. Edgar Hoover Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over. Amy Alcott I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff. Joseph Fiennes Censorship is advertising paid by the government. Federico Fellini But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists. Ernst Zundel

of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution. Don Young Well, if I used the privilege of self-incrimination at that time, I must have felt that perhaps there might be something that might incriminate me in answering. Ethel Rosenberg There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief. Evelyn Waugh Courage in danger is half the battle. Plautus Why go somewhere else and start up all over again? John Baldacci Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. Louis Kronenberger

to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity. Michael Oxley Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well. David Ives The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat. Michael Ondaatje I am a gay American. James McGreevey Each time I play a song it seems more real. Robert Smith I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else. Emmanuelle Beart Kindness is the cause of all anxiety. David D. Burns

idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do. Bryan Singer Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level. Bill Dixon The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies. Napoleon Bonaparte To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. Ludwig von Mises The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment. Tom Barrett Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. Albert Einstein Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. Ge...

advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine. Will Wright Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also. Townsend Harris I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain. John Hall The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more. Brent Scowcroft Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. Bobby Unser I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away. Stuart Appleby When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. Helen Rowland

9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind? Rahm Emanuel There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day. Mackenzie Astin Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries. Richard V. Allen I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex. Nicholas Sparks The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job. Samuel Goldwyn Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Mother Teresa

and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience. Ed Markey That was when I found out that you could talk to them and it was a whole other way to blow your stack, and it's so much fun to perform that you want to do it again and the more you get out of it the better. Leo Kottke Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not. James Russell Lowell It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane. Sean Combs It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. Stendhal My use of language is part and parcel of my message. Theo Van Gogh Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. Philip Roth

items arrive as you need to build your product. What that means is that it's much more difficult to actually find stockpiles of already built weapons. Mitchell Reiss After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it. Carl Perkins I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here. Michael Owen Bruce This is a strange game. Carl Yastrzemski Music is spiritual. The music business is not. Van Morrison Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache. Morrissey It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens. Anthony Weiner

given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play. Joan Sutherland Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia. Julie Bishop We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive. Corrine Brown If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? Laurence J. Peter The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness. Robert Bly My greatest fear is to be misunderstood. Elliott Gould I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones. Andy Goldsworthy