I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Taylor Caldwell

Music is hugely important to me.

Rashida Jones

But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.

Cliff Richard

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

Charlotte Davis Kasl

I like my life alone.

Sarah Silverman

Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.

Nicholas Sparks

If either the absence or the presence of novelty is equally annoying, it would hardly seem that either could be the true cause of despair.

Bertrand Russell

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.

Mike Myers

And givin' yourself to me can never be wrong

Marvin Gaye

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

Henry David Thoreau

She looked out at the other trees, and she realised that her life was one of thousands, any one of which could have been her, she had grown wherever her life had taken her, she had drifted wherever the wind had blown her.

Dave McKean