Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

Bill Cosby

On the beach, at dawn:Four small stones clearlyHugging each other.How many kinds of loveMight there be in the world,And how many formations might they makeAnd who am I everTo imagine I could knowSuch a marvelous business?When the sun brokeIt poured willingly its lightOver the stonesThat did not move, not at all,Just as, to its always generous term,It shed its light on me,My own body that loves, Equally, to hug another body.

Mary Oliver

Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Johann von Goethe

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

Deepak Chopra

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.

Portia de Rossi

You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Karl Lagerfeld

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

Meryl Streep

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

Julien de la Mettrie, The Human

Looking through the telescope, one saw a circle of deep blue and the little round planet swimming in the field. It seemed such a little thing, so bright and small and still, faintly marked with transverse stripes, and slightly flattened from the perfect round. But so little it was, so silvery warm

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells, Th

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

Nastassja Kinski