"All of a sudden, if I can't go cycling, I have to do something else for five hours - I can't do anything for five hours! It just means sitting at home trying to work out something to do. It's just not me, it doesn't feel right."

“There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You're Arguing with 'What Is' - Your demands keep you chained to the 'dream-state' of the conditioned mind. The desire to 'control'... is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.”

“A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.”

“I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.”

“You know, my mother had a rule which was 'people are just people.”

Source : "Lynne Cheney On The VP, Gays And Her Book". "Sunday Morning" with Rita Braver, www.cbsnews.com. October 5, 2007.

“The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.”

“The Chinese government would yield to the pressure from its people: it would be forced to give orders to fight - to defend its motherland!”

“Plan for each episode to be a satisfying experience, but still leave the audience thinking, 'Oh, my God! Now what?”

“I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.