"Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress."

“One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit.”

“I'm not a vegetarian.”

Source : "Transcript: Carol Alt Talks About 'Eating in the Raw'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2005.

“The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.”

Source : "Harold Bloom, The Art of Criticism No. 1". Interview with Antonio Weiss, biblioklept.org. 1991.

“Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations.”

“It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.”

“Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.”

“Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.”

Source : Sir Edwin Arnold (1856). “Griselda: a tragedy: and other poems”, p.235

“I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.”

Source : "American Dreamer". www.motherjones.com. January/February 1997.