Why do I have this imagination? It's the only one I've got!

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Peter De Vries

My family begins with me, your family ends with you.

Iphicrates

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

George Santayana

If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game—age 37, aging alternative icon—I'd be taking out ads.

Henry Rollins

My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

When the thunder rumbles,Now the age of gold is dead.When the dreams we've clung toTrying to stay young,Have left us parched and old instead.When my courage crumbles,When I feel confused and frail,When my spirit falters on decaying altarsAnd my illusions fail --I go on right then.I go on again.I go on to say I will celebrate another day.I go on.If tomorrow tumblesAnd everything I love is gone,I will face regret all my days, and yetI will still go on.

Leonard Bernstein, from Leonard

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.... rust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Mary Schmich

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

Stephen Colbert

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

William Hazlitt

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.

William Shakespeare