Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Thich Nhat Hanh

People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight.

Chinese Proverb

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

C.S. Lewis

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

Annie Lennox

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

Michael Haneke

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

David Guerrero

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

David Seabury

I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.

Terence

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

Natalie Goldberg

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Samuel Johnson

I don't want a huge wedding. I don't want it to be some huge spectacle.

Kristin Cavallari