I barrel into his arms, my mouth connecting with his. Seizing him. Feeling him. Loving him.

Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. They did not have long to explore the sexual revolution and make it their own. Before the old chains had grown cold, while young women were still rubbing the circulation back into their ankles and taking tentative steps forward, the beauty industries levied a heavy toll on further investigations, and beauty pornography offered them designer bondage.

Naomi Wolf

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

Oscar Wilde

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Round numbers are always false

Samuel Johnson

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

Richard King

One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.

Bear Grylls

Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.

Janette Rallison

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

Miguel de Cervantes

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed...

C.S. Lewis

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

Suze Orman