There is a picture of me in their heads, a picture of someone I don't know yet. She is not the chubby girl with the braces and bad perm. She is not the girl hiding in the bathroom at recess. She is someone new, a blank slate they have named beautiful. That is what I am now: beautiful, with this new body and face and hair and clothes. Beautiful, with this erasing of history.

For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.

J.K. Rowling

Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

Gary Bauer

You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.

Rush Limbaugh

There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.

Pat Robertson

What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

John Ruskin

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Doug Larson

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

Tallulah Bankhead

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Henry Miller

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

George Eliot

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Pat Buckley

When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.

Buddy Rice

People can cry much easier than they can change.

James Baldwin