I tend to go to bed really early on New Year's Eve. Then I wake up early, drive up while it's still dark, and hike out somewhere beautiful to watch the sunrise. I just take a couple hours and have a post-mortem of the year.

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

Jean Rostand

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

Dennis Miller

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

[The Pigeon had learned something about [women] from his eight sisters, and if over the years he had absorbed only this one thing, it would stand as vindication that a boy does not suffer needlessly from growing up in a house with eight sisters. That thing was that a woman's heart is not bought by the currency of a man's emotion for her. A woman's heart is won over by her own feelings for herself when he just happens to be around ...

Brigid Pasulka

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

William Feather

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

Terry Pratchett

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai Stevenson

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.

Frank Carson

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

J.K. Rowling

I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.

Louise Mensch

Let's create a legal system that can work.

Sam Brownback

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Jeremy Taylor