I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

Oscar Ameringer

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.

Jeanette Winterson

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

Charles Lamb

The cheerful loser is the winner.

Elbert Hubbard

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Theodore Roosevelt

Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.

Harry Graham

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

James Russell Lowell

If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.

Gary Allan

But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando - perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all.

Thomas Haden Church