Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

Paulo Coelho

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.

Byron J. Langenfield

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

Maxwell Maltz

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

Matthew McGrory

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Ray Bradbury

Sometimes God dillies and dallies, and sometimes he just points at you and tells you to hang up your jock.

Stephen King

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

Anne Tyler

Yeah, I've worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.

Alia Shawkat

These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who don't want their children, give them to me.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

Julie Walters

By indignities men come to dignities.

Francis Bacon