Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

Henny Youngman

If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.

Jami Gertz

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Charles Baudelaire

Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.

William Shakespeare

When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep, that dream is an illusion. But when we dream together, sharing the same dream, awake and with our eyes wide open, then that dream becomes reality!

Source Unknown

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

Liz Phair

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

C. S. Lewis

It is the ignorant and childish part of man that is the fighting part

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pulvis et umbra sumus

Cassandra Clare

I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

Sonia Sotomayor

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Les Brown

Politics is a people business. I like people.

Laura Bush