If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm judicial pen And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams an intensity of expectation that in the end diminishes the reality.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude and nothing more important.

Euthanasia is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

Good fellowship unflagging is the prime requisite for success in our society and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Performance is an act of faith.

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

All we're getting from the Democratic majority in Congress and from this White House is more bailouts, more spending, more planned stimulus, more deficits and debt, and the American people have had it.

Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.

No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.