Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

Rand Paul

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

Marquis de Sade

Honestly, I never thought I'd actually be playing a teen lesbian. I didn't think it was going to go this far. But I'm glad that it did, because there have been a lot of fans who have expressed that they've been going through similar situations in their lives.

Naya Rivera

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

Lara Flynn Boyle

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

Dogen Zenji

He is great enough that is his own master.

Joseph Hall

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

Tom Hanks

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Norah Jones

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today....

Benjamin Franklin

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

Brigitte Bardot

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

That which we look on with unselfish love And true humility is surely ours, Even as a lake looks at the stars above And makes within itself a heaven of stars.

Mary Gardiner Brainard