I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Samuel Johnson

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

Glenn Beck

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

Muriel Rukeyser

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

James H. Breasted

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

Zoe Kazan

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

Shimon Peres

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

Alice Walker

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

Jonathan Edwards

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Vince Lombardi

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

Jerry Saltz

In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.

Christie Hefner

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

Lucretia Mott