My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

Melissa Rosenberg

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Salman Rushdie

I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.

Mike Judge

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

William Barclay

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

Emmeline Pankhurst

I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.

Jordin Sparks

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

Nick Clegg

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

Finley Peter Dunne

A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.

Josh Bowman

it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat

Nikki Giovanni

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Steven Wright

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

J.K. Rowling