To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

Tom Hanks

Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what your sister said when--

Cassandra Clare

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Bill Vaughan

This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.

Zadie Smith

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Fay Weldon

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Finley Peter Dunne

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

John Drinkwater

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

Marlee Matlin

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

Dave Barry

We grow small trying to be great.

Eli Stanley Jones

My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.

Neil Cavuto