Being a mother is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me in my life.

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.

Hannah Arendt

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry

Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.

Sue Johanson

Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows.

Proverb

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

Phyllis McGinley

It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.

Peter Medawar

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

Ayelet Waldman

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Dan Quayle

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Leo Tolstoy

This president has said this has to be a priority for our nation, protecting our food supply from terrorist acts, so he continues to provide the funding that is necessary.

Mike Johanns

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Jean Rostand

I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.

Joaquin Phoenix