Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Speak your truth with grace and integrity, even though it might upset some people. You never know who else, besides yourself, it might help.

Leila Summers

On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality; but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.

Steve Maraboli

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Wallace Stevens

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

Mark Consuelos

I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

James Iha

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

G. K. Chesterton

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

Harriet Tubman

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Japanese Proverb

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.

Benjamin Disraeli

My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.'

Jennifer Hudson

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

Henry James

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Albert Einstein