A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

Sonia Sotomayor

Thrift is of great revenue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!

Lisa Loeb

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

Ian Mcewan

The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three.

George Orwell

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

Marguerite Duras

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

Larry Niven

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Lord Byron

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Arthur Christopher Benson

A sad man, is man with the lights turned off.

Arsenie Boca