When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

As he had so many times before, Taleswapper addressed a few silent words to God, which always came down to this question: Why do you put us to so much trouble, when it all comes to naught in the end?...And, as usual, God had nothing much to say to Taleswapper when his questioning was done.

Orson Scott Card

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Emily Prager

A good garden may have some weeds.

Thomas Fuller

More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.

John Kenneth Galbraith

You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

Brad Bird

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

Suzanne Somers

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

Cardinal Richelieu

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Richard Lamm

I really am super lazy and doing long hair, especially mine, is a big pain in the butt. It's filled with cowlicks and kinks and curls and frizz - and it was taking too much time in the morning.

Ginnifer Goodwin

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

Harvey Fierstein

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

Alexander Herzen

Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you.

Frederick Hudson Ecker