points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means. Arthur Koestler With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts. Bruce Conner I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without. Edward Weston I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in. Arthur Hertzberg I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. Margaret Atwood It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word. Andrew Jackson We are all of us failures - at least, the be...

computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear. Dan Farmer When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record. Teddy Wilson I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now. John Ritter That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. Freda Adler The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. Adrienne Rich An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. Edward de Bono Beauty attracts ...

skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams. Ed Markey Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. Vaclav Havel It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner. Beryl Bainbridge If they do something like that, maybe a Freddy Krueger fan, a girl, a really sick goth girl starts killing kids herself and Freddy has to put a stop to it, or they have to fight it out. Robert Englund By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients. Andrew Weil But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists. Lee Scott We need a complete ban on soft money, whi...

me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours. Rita Rudner There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Niccolo Machiavelli If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it. George Burns I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. Rick Moody Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. Russell Baker If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. Audre Lorde ...

you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure. Michael Korda Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book. Bernard Cornwell Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks. John Yoo Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew. Kevin Garnett All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. Chief Seattle Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and...

then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. Corazon Aquino The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans. Howard Fineman The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn't know if people would believe me in the role just because of my physicality, which made me want to do it even more. Charlotte Ross Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. Jared Diamond I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out. David Sedaris Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite. John Leonard For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he m...

from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method. Frederik Pohl The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing. Henry Adams Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. Archibald MacLeish Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people. George W. Bush Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life. Ronnie James Dio If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Napoleon Hill It is the business of the...

you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules. Lars von Trier Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops. David Hackworth You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable. Arthur Conan Doyle I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano. Kevin Kline When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing. Wyclef Jean Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. Anais Nin It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clo...

money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result. Steve Forbes People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient. Jim Mitchell Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain. John Calvin And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling. Arnold Schwarzenegger When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Mary Oliver Education is hanging around until you've caught on. Robert Frost The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that ...

was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling. Elmer Bernstein But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country. John Abizaid It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties. Bill Shuster The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps. Charlotte Smith The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness. Anne Morrow Lindbergh The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. Thomas Carlyle ...

new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot. Michael J. Fox One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved. Bill Nelson I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself. Robert B. Parker Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more. Niccolo Machiavelli In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it. John Sweeney I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty. Diane Kruger A comprom...

only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God. Smokey Robinson To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. Akhenaton Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn. Robin Cousins My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians. Walter Becker For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending. Mike Pence Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch. Dennis Miller Toleration and liberty are the fo...

used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. Petrarch The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. Sun Tzu So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him. Duane G. Carey It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia. Natan Sharansky Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books. Berkeley Breathed Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax...

saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. Alvin Toffler My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed! Anne Sullivan Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. Lewis Mumford The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first. Rachel Bilson Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances. Peter Stone Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred. Barbara De Angelis Sometimes it is a great j...

level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there. Amy Sedaris The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can. Russell Crowe A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door. Joan Lunden I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity. Lee Child It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better. Stanley Schmidt I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make m...