Quote of the Day

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."

"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?"

"Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?"

"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson."

"You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once."

"future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured."

"It is a subtle truth that the river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college."

"Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children."

"It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy."

"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come."

"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain."