Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

Danny Boyle

Anyone who writes is too precious to lose.

Carlos J. Cortes

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Carrie Underwood

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

Sophia Loren

After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.

Sarah Dessen

As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.

Lance Loud

A patient man is one who can put up with himself.

Source Unknown

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

Mark Twain

Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.

Cassandra Clare

Last time I went skiing, I had to get up at 5:00 in the morning.I knew I couldn't do that, so I slept with my skis on. My ridecame at 5:30 in the morning, couldn't wake me up so he carriedme out of the house, put my skis on the roof rack of the car,and drove to the mountain. Seventeen miles later, I woke up outof this incredibly bizarre dream that I was skydivinghorizontally. I'm sure this has happened to you.

Steven Wright

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to F