I've never been a TV junkie. I remember watching Letterman way back when he had a morning show.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.

Jodi Picoult

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Orson Welles

God did not call the qualified to serve Him: instead He qualified the called.

Judy Baer

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Thomas Jefferson

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Phillips Brooks

How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.

June Ahern

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

Virginia Satir

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.

John Osborne

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself -- civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.

Henry Miller

I love to do glamorous things, like wear Valentino.

Debra Messing