I tell you, that dragon's the most horrible animal I've ever met, but the way Hagrid goes on about it, you'd think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Maya Angelou

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

Mark Twain

I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year.

Isabel Allende

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

Source Unknown

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Johann von Goethe

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

John Bolton

What a piece of work is a man!How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties!In form and moving, how express and admirable!In action how like an angel!In apprehension how like a god!The beauty of the world!The paragon of animals!And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

William Shakespeare

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

Harri Holkeri

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

William Ewart Gladstone

Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.

Franz Grillparzer

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Amanda Bradley

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

Sean Penn