"What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!"

“I think you always take pride in how you play.”

“We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.”

“I think the money that I've got is a consequence of the activities I've been doing and the interests that I've had in my life. I've never set out to make a lot of money..”

Source : "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. August 07, 2009.

“My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.”

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

“Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.”

Source : "Alone in the Wilderness" by Bob Swerer Productions, Part 2 DVD,

“I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.”

“I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.”

Source : "What is Religion?". Speech at the "Parliament of World Religions", Columbian Exposition, Chicago World's Fair, 1893.

“A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning.”

Source : "Tom Brokaw: 'I'm The Luckiest Guy in the World'" by Kathleen Mccleary, parade.com. May 1, 2015.