I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.

Maria Sharapova

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

William Trevor

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

Josh Billings

I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

Soren Kierkegaard

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Source Unknown

Life is not a matter of chance...it is a matter of choice.

Ka

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

Thomas Paine

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

John Mayer

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

Gerhard Schroder

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Gilbert Parker

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

Malcolm X