When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

Lech Walesa

When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!

Brooke Burke

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

Fernando Pessoa

To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature.

American Indian Proverb, Oglala

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

Sir Henry Taylor

Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

Jandy Nelson

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Voltaire

As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more acute, when he sent off various applications to enlist in the armed forces. I didn't want to be involved in this decision either way, especially since I was being regularly taunted for not having 'sent' any of my children to fight in the wars of resistance that I supported. (As if I could 'send' anybody, let alone a grown-up and tough and smart young man: what moral imbeciles the 'anti-war' people have become.)

Christopher Hitchens

How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention!

John Greenleaf Whittier

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Helen Keller

He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent If we had ten thousand billion years.

Lauren Oliver

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

William Cullen Bryant