What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

We moralize among ruins.

Benjamin Disraeli

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt

...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...

John Geddes

The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.

Florence Welch

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.

Jane Austen

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

William Cowper

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

Neil Gaiman

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

Martin Short

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Hermann Hesse

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

E.M. Forster

Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.

Teri Garr