A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

Amy Heckerling

Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Elaine N. Aron

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

B. B. King

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

Charles Krauthammer

The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don't know they are.

Kathy Griffin

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig van Beethoven

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

Alexander Haig

We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

Oscar Wilde

Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.

Cassandra Clare

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

Robert McChesney