In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

Norton Juster

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Jung

Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.

Cheryl Ladd

Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.

Hermann Hesse

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

Marian Wright Edelman

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.

Elizabeth Janeway

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

George C. Wallace

I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.

Peter Gallagher

I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.

Brittany Murphy

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

Norah Jones