Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement.

Aristotle

It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invest itself in what seemed like no time at all.

Cassandra Clare

I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me.

Joel Robuchon

When art wins, everyone wins.

Jerry Saltz

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Jesse Ventura

Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.

Bertrand Russell

Reagan is mad. If he were here, I would tell him the truth about us. He hears about us only through hostile sources.

Muammar Gaddafi

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We spend a lot of time trying to get more and more things, not realizing that those things can never fulfill us. Learn from those who have gone before you - stuff can never satisfy your desires, so focus on THE ONE who can.

Osayi Osar-Emokpae

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Maria Weston Chapman

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

Henry Louis Gates