We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

Martin Luther King Jr.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Mark Twain

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.

Thomas Hardy

When angry, count ten before you speak if very angry, an hundred.

Thomas Jefferson

What is a rebel A man who says no.

Albert Camus

I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.

Emily Blunt

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Dave Barry

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Jake Simmons

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Music my rampart, and my only one.

Edna St. Vincent Millay