"Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us."

“We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.”

Source : "Venice, the Place and the People: Salve Venetia; Gleanings from Venetian History, Vol. 2". Book by Francis Marion Crawford, Macmillan, p. 32, "Report of the sitting of the Tribunal of the Inquisition on Saturday July eighteenth, 1573" transl. by Charles Yriarte, 1909.

“In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.”

Source : "Michelle Obama makes the political and personal case for four more years" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.

“I am always a competitor and my wife and son have never seen me wrestle.”

Source : Source: www.oklafan.com

“450,000 Iraqi children have died from starvation and lack of medicine as a result of our embargo. If you believe God loves little children - and hundreds of thousands more Iraqi children will die if there is war - you have to believe that God will judge us very harshly for this.”

“It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.”

“Christmas is a kindling of new fires.”

“The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.”

“A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.”