My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

All the world loves a good loser.

Kin Hubbard

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible

George Orwell

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Thomas Jefferson

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true I was raised in a freight car.

Merle Haggard

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

Derek Jacobi

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

Michelle Bachelet

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.

Mark Feuerstein

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Diane Wakoski

An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

Frantz Fanon

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Arianna Huffington