“Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've le...” — Anna Quindlen Quote

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.

If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.

The thing about old friends is not that they love you, but that they know you. They remember that disastrous New Year's Eve when you mixed White Russians and champagne, and how you wore that red maternity dress until everyone was sick of seeing the blaze of it in the office, and the uncomfortable couch in your first apartment and the smoky stove in your beach rental. They look at you and don't really think you look older because they've grown old along with you, and, like the faded paint in a beloved room, they're used to the look. And then one of them is gone, and you've lost a chunk of yourself. The stories of the terrorist attacks of 2001, the tsunami, the Japanese earthquake always used numbers, the deaths of thousands a measure of how great the disaster. Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

We're fascinated with American culture and the fantasy of freedom, that you can run away with your lover, romantically, or in a friendship sense. 'Bonnie and Clyde,' 'Badlands,' 'Thelma & Louise.' Or with your dog! There was that movie Michelle Williams did, 'Wendy and Lucy.'

I have achieved an inner freedom.