"I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old."

“Our society is only as healthy as our most vulnerable citizens. It is unconscionable that the weakest links in our country are our hungry children. No other Western industrialized nation has widespread hunger within its borders. We really must put an end to hunger in the United States if we are to keep our prosperity and protect the future.”

“Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like.”

“Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.”

“Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.”

Source : Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.20, Ballantine Books

“All things are delicately interconnected.”

Source : Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

“I came from rather humble beginnings.”

Source : Teresa Palmer by Sarah Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

“You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.”

“You're either coaching it or allowing it to happen.”