Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.

Ernst Toller

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Theodore Parker

I'm calling from my car, I'm sorry, I'm like running around like crazy.

Melissa Joan Hart

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

John Gay

Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom rather than his theory, often to have his stubbornness rewarded.

Walter Isaacson

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet--a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

Frederick William Robertson

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

Wayne Gretzky

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Bertrand Russell

All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.

Kurt Sutter

I've always been wary of marriage.

Cynthia Nixon