"Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns."

“When I got married and had a child and went to work, my day was all day, all night. You lose your sense of balance. That was in the late '60s, '70s, women went to work, they went crazy. They thought the workplace was much more exciting than the home. They thought the family could wait. And you know what? The family can't wait. And women have now found that out. It all has to do with women, or the homemaker leaving the home and realizing that where they've gone is not as fabulous, or as rewarding, or as self-fulfilling as the balance between the workplace and the home place.”

“If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.”

“Your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die. This is called living.”

“It is really wonderful for me to understand that there are times in life when your job, and the excellence of your job, requires to not be - have the comfort zone of being popular.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“I'm not always comfortable when a man tells me he's gay, I don't understand his world but I do understand that he's part of mine.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Sports caster Dale Hansen discusses the motivation behind his defense of Michael Sam". Interview with Catherine Morpeth, fourtwonine.com. February 13, 2014.

“As I go musing through this mournful land Soothed by the pine-tree's solemn harmony, Thy well-loved image comes and walks by me. I seem to hold thee by the gentle hand And talk of things I dimly understand, That thy dear spirit set to mine may be As to an intricate lock the simple key.”

“In Greece we're too poor to go to psychiatrists -- we have friends instead.”

“John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset.”

Source : "A history of the year in 100 objects - part four", www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2010.