My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.

Candace Cameron

It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

Mel Torme

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

Ernest Hemingway

This is a business of love and labor.

Chester Bennington

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

G. K. Chesterton

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

Jeff Bridges

Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation, our economy and our collective prosperity. It gives us a chance to show gratitude for workers' grit, dedication, ingenuity and strength, which define our nation's character.

Thomas E. Perez

If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama? You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.

Mitt Romney

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Frank Moore Colby, The Colby Ess

Locks keep out only the honest.

Yiddish Proverb

Measure three times before you cut once.

Proverb

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

John Barton