Dennis Conner is Pete Rose in deck shoes.

Dennis Conner is Pete Rose in deck shoes.

Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

Leaders must develop a lower threshold for alibis and become better communicators and enforcers of what they want done. Holding people accountable to high standards and results is nothing to apologize for. Failing to stretch them to their potential is.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

I was always influenced by language.

Growing up, I've had plenty of obstacles, but to be honest, I didn't always have doubters. I was a standout athlete, so when that happens, you don't have too many people telling you 'You can't do this,' and 'You can't do that.' I've always been a bit of a people person and a hard worker.

I like hanging out with people.

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

In truth wilderness is a state of mind and heart. Very little exists now in actuality.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We have to choose every day to be active participants. To wake up in the morning and choose this life and make something of it is an incredible thing. Not many living creatures have that option. We have so many opportunities and options - it's a huge burden, but it's also the most freeing part of our lives.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

You fall for who the chemistry is with.

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never going to be that way. It couldn't be that way.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

I wanted a choker, and couldn't find one I liked, so I thought, 'I'll just make it.'

Conformism is essential to the group coherence and 'spirit.' The whole impetus behind tribalism of this kind is conservative: Belonging to the tribe is defined by opposition to other tribes. Our tribe, and its traditional ways, is superior to other tribes because it is ours.

The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'

My husband is in branding. He brands places - cities, institutions.

Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

I want to win championships.