The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.

I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

Melissa Manchester

I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves.

Jon Heder

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

Mason Cooley

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

Victor Hugo

Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.

Diogenes Laërtius

I don't believe in Apocalypses. I believe in Apocatastases. I think it may be the title for The Film. It's a bitch to pronounce, and no-one knows what it means, but otherwise it's a great title.

Neil Gaiman

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. On Eleanor Roosevelt

Clare Boothe Luce

What goes up must come down.

Isaac Newton

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

Clare Short

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

Thom Gunn

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

Darren Aronofsky

I'm not a victim. I'm not a survivor. I'm a fighter.

J.E. Mathewson