When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Charles Dickens

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

John Gunther

The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over 0 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.

Jim Clyburn

To our Creator, a small detail is a big deal.

Todd Stocker

So Marigold, my love, you've had too much to drink

Tomas Kalnoky

This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself. Now there is a loss beyond imagining.

Michael Cunningham

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Joseph De Maistre

I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers. Go ahead-make my day.

Ronald Reagan

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

Peggy Noonan

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.

Mahmoud Abbas

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Bernard Meltzer