Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

Emo Philips

All good government must begin at home.

H. R. Haweis

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

George Orwell

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Arthur Balfour

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

Herodotus

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.

James Burgh

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The strong man is strongest when alone.

Friedrich von Schiller

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Richard Cecil

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

Charles Dickens

Sometimes you think you've found love, when it's really just one of those objects that are shiny in a certain light--a trophy, say, or a ring, or a diamond, even. Glass shards, maybe. You've got to be careful, you do. The shine can blind you. The edges can cut you in way you never imagined. It is up to you to allow that or not.

Deb Caletti

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

Jeremy Taylor