I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Garrison Keillor, We Are Still M

Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

Erin McKean

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Joseph Wood Krutch

I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

Chester Brown

Hogwarts is threatened! shouted Professor McGonagall. Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!

J.K. Rowling

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Antoine Rivarol

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.

Black Elk

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

Selma Blair

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

Chuck Norris

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

Christiane Amanpour

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Adrian Rogers

There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air.

Richard Marek