My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance.

As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.

W. H. Auden

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Harry S Truman

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

Bill Griffith

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Aldous Huxley

I love the Grammy nominations this year. Anybody who really loves what they do got rewarded for it. It's not a death match between Ray Charles and Jessica Simpson.

John Mayer

Look. Jammies.

Cassandra Clare

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.

John Green

It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.

Randy Newman

I'm like the kid in kindergarten I really do send valentines to everyone.

Susie Bright

Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott

A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.fr.: On resiste a l'invasion des armees; on ne resiste pas a l'invasion des idees

Victor Hugo, Histoire d'un Crime