After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

...and the stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

Neil Gaiman

The message of love can never come into a human soul, and pass away from it unreceived, without leaving that spirit worse, with all its lowest characteristics strengthened, and all its best ones depressed, by the fact of rejection.

Alexander Maclaren

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

American Indian Proverb, Pima

There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

Jill Clayburgh

It seemed to us that the fantastic can be, can do, so much more than its detractors assume: it can illuminate the real, it can distort it, it can mask it, it can hide it. It can show you the world you know in a way that makes you realise you've never looked at it, not at it.

Neil Gaiman

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

Doris Lessing

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

Philip Wylie

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Charles Dickens

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Jimmy Carter

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

Mary Heaton Vorse