"From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next."

“I collect art on a very modest scale. Most of what I have is photography because I just love it and it makes me happy and it looks good in my home. I also have a pretty big collection of art books mainly, again, on photography. A lot of photography monographs, which is great because with photography, the art itself can be reproduced quite well in book form.”

Source : "Chris Parnell on Farrah Fawcett and being mistaken for Chris Kattan". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 11, 2015.

“We use intuition as a way to connect with our Divine Self.”

“Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.”

“Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.”

“That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.”

“Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.”

Source : "Up from Liberalism". Book by William F. Buckley Jr., 1959.

“My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'”

“Surfing is something I just crave.”

Source : "AnnaSophia Robb Exclusive Interview SOUL SURFER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 6, 2011.