I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Edmond de Goncourt

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

Paul Simon

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

Bill Frist

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Noam Chomsky

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Mahatma Gandhi

An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions

Ayn Rand, (interview), "Playboy"

How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!

Ogden Nash

People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Rosa Parks

And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.

Ed Rendell

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

Anita DeFrantz

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.

Lena Dunham

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen