"If you want to feel proud of yourself, then do good. Take action that will make you proud. . . . And if you really want to feel proud, then do something to help someone else."

“Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.”

Source : "Social Security Is Not the Problem" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

“Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words.”

“You will be incomplete Christians if you do not look for the coming again of the Lord Jesus”

“I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.”

Source : Ruth Reichl (2013). “Comfort Me With Apples: Love, Adventure and a Passion for Cooking”, Random House

“I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.”

“Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.”

“The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.”

“As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.”