Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large...

It’s very important to know the language.

Science is facts.

Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites.

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies...

The buffalo isn’t as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for...

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o’clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign...

One of the good things about television is that there’s such alternatives now to what’s often homogenized network entertainment.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood’s box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.

So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather.

I don’t find music being less important than, like, politics.

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.

It’s what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

I mow my own lawn.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is – it is her shadow.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive...

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers’ incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are...

Civilization is hideously fragile and there’s not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and...

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don’t judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information...

We’re not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It’s the same with anybody else who’s positioning themselves.

Being attractive and being credible can and do go together.

I don’t know of anybody’s political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

Whomever you’re going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.