Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.

Jon Porter

She walks in beauty. (118)

Ron Rash

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Vaclav Havel

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.

Mahatma Gandhi

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a d--n.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

John Green

I haven't betrayed Julia

George Orwell

The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.

Jodi Picoult

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

Louis Kronenberger

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

Don Roff

I have enough music coming out of my kids' bedrooms when I'm at home.

Rod Stewart

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

Cat Stevens