I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

Bill Frist

Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.

Henry David Thoreau

Beauty like hers is genius.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Martin Luther King Jr.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Amy Grant

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

Eric Hoffer

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

Fernando Pessoa

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Morris Raphael Cohen

The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.

Drew Barrymore

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Herman Melville

Such as we are made of, such we be.

William Shakespeare