I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes.

George Bernard Shaw

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Elbert Hubbard

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Kahlil Gibran

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Erma Bombeck

To define is to limit.

Oscar Wilde

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher,... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

Otto Weininger

Very few people can afford to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw

To experience life you have to kind of face a lot of fears.

Carrie-Anne Moss

I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

Anthony Foxx

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

Jane Austen

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

Marguerite Young

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.

Kathleen Turner