Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)
I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.
That mist was thick. It was hard to see at times. The wind was wild. It'd come at me one way and hit me from the front, and hit me from the back.
I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.
I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.
I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.
Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.
I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don't smell, you don't hear, you don't touch anymore.
I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror.
I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of course, I used a rope.
It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years.
Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.
There are examples of ex-presidents speaking out. Jimmy Carter has not held back on a variety of issues. Harry Truman didn't.
How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.
Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.
Henry Kissinger never wanted the 20,000 pages of his telephone transcripts made public - not while he was alive, at any rate.
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
The greatest presidents have been those who demonstrated astute judgment in times of crisis - often despite the advice they were getting.
Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.
