Spending time with the ones who are dear to you is like being in a dream, is it not?

A critic never made or killed a book or a play. The people themselves are the final judges. It is their opinion that counts. After all, the final test is truth. But the trouble is that most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession and therefore are most economical in its use.

Mark Twain

Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.

Seth Godin

Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.

Brooke Burke

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.

Conrad Bums

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

Levon Helm

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

John Guare

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

Edward Dahlberg

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein

We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

George Sand

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

William Hague

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

Howard Fineman