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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

I don't care about money.

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch.

I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.