Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

Marian Wright Edelman

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

Janelle Monae

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

Jodi Picoult

Suddenly she knew. She knew! Love. That was what she had that IT did not have. She had Mrs. Whatsit's love, and her father's, and mother's, and the real Charles Wallace's love, and the twins', and Aunt Beast's. And she had her love for them. But how could she use it? What was she meant to do?

Madeleine L'Engle

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.

Hermann Hesse

Imagination needs to be fed.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.

Elisha Cuthbert

We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

Jimmy Carter

Were the whole realm of nature mine,That were a present far too small:Love so amazing, so divineDemands my soul, my life, my all.

Isaac Watts

The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.

Christopher Monckton

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

Armistead Maupin