What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.

My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

We had no domestic attacks under Bush.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

President Obama, by the way, has set a Guinness World Record as the fastest person to get a million Twitter followers. Obama now has as many followers as the Republicans have presidential candidates.

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

Dream Song: The heavens Go with me.

Rick Shapiro is a top comedian.

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope.

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.