I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

Walter Lippmann

The purpose of population is not ultimately peopling earth. It is to fill heaven.

Graham D. Leonard

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

John Fowles

I believe in love, children and being a good person.

Leighton Meester

This is what is meant by the phenomenology of the science-making process: Self-observation always leads us to an existential point about the metaphysics of experience, and it is almost always a transforming moment. (p. 286)

Eugene Taylor

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

Robert Southey

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

William Scott

Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.

Steve Maraboli

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Franklin P. Jones

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

Benjamin Franklin

All warfare is based on deception.

Unknown

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

David Spade