I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons but my mom really insisted.

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun who does liturgical dance.

Imagine my surprise when after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

I love America more than any other country in this world and exactly for this reason I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated.

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip the number two man in their leadership?