I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Armstrong Williams

I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

Kyle Chandler

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

Junius

I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.

Langston Hughes

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.

Jack Dee

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.

Dag Hammarskjold

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Sydney J. Harris

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

Nicholas Sparks

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Saint Augustine

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

Peter Yarrow

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

Madeleine Albright