This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it.

Source Unknown

Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.

Suze Orman

I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

Peter Singer

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

John Guare

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Publilius Syrus

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.

George Orwell

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

Jess C. Scott

God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way

Leighton Ford

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce

We face a choice this election. President Obama is fighting for changes that grow the economy from the middle out and help all Americans succeed - jobs, education, health reform, the DREAM Act, equal pay for women. He is moving us forward with opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. Mitt Romney wants to take us back to yesterday.

Eva Longoria

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Arnold Glasgow

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

Arthur Erickson