When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

James Reston

Embrace the cracks in your life and the breaks in your heart as places into which divine light can shine.

Iyanla Vanzant

I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege.

Joel Edgerton

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

Rose Kennedy

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Johann von Goethe

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

James Randolph Adams

A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.

Eliot Spitzer

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despising. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.

William Hale White

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

Enrico Bombieri

The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite - and typically they don't.

Jeffrey Kluger

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

Alton Brown

Progress is the stride of God.

Victor Hugo