Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school home... until I found something I loved which was music and that changed everything.

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home goes to an all-white school and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow I would look back on all the pleasures excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness not my miscarriages or my father leaving home but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Since I travel so much it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.

There is nothing more important than a good safe secure home.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

There is something permanent and something extremely profound in owning a home.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory friends you can trust love of learning and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes intolerances and violations.

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences because it's not profitable and now Newt as the highest-paid historian in American history may be an encouragement to people to study history.

When it comes to true humility in the face of history nothing beats complete silence.

Our history is that we can very aggressively if necessary and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

If you listen to Giuliani it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.

Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially with a leftist slant to work out how we got here.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play collaborate and compete share knowledge and share work than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.