Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline are a peculiar and effective form of communication? They have mastered the language.

Chris Hedges

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

Kerri Walsh

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

Johann von Goethe

This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

Kenny Marchant

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

Maurice Sendak

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

Rachelle Lefevre

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

Drew Barrymore

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

Barry Mann

The awakening has begun!

William Dempsey

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Arnold J. Toynbee, (attributed)

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Sometimes it's hard to believe what we are really.

Riyadh Razzaq