We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

George Bernard Shaw

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

Linda Cardellini

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

John Buchan

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

Ronald Blythe

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

Malcolm X

Name me an ethical statement made or an action performed by a believer that could not have been made or performed by a non-believer.

Christopher Hitchens

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

Tracy Chapman

We are the children of our own deeds.

Victor Hugo

There never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

Oliver Wendell Holmes