She despised weakness, especially her own. She'd seared most of heremotional needs with the white-hit iron of self-reliance andindependence years before.~Angels Unaware

Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need -- the umbrella of God's love.

The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.

Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.

Buddhism is the process of getting to that part of us that is always eternally happy.

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

I would love to just talk to Paul McCartney. That would be incredible, but that is definitely like a dream.

The best actors in the world are the actors who don't keep the walls up all the time and allow themselves the potential to be embarrassed.

The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.

I guess everybody's different, but I know that everybody's natural instinct is to remember the bad stuff more than the good stuff.