The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

William Faulkner

When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Jerry Kramer

Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.

Bertrand Russell

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

William Temple

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

Abraham Lincoln

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

Julie Andrews

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

Chris Van Allsburg

the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight.

Taylor Swift

Let me die the moment my love dies. Let me not outlive my own capacity to love. Let me die still loving, and so, never die.

Mary Zimmerman

I believe in the power of weakness.

Pat Buckley

I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?

Paul Begala