You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Dorothea Brande

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

John Lennon

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Fr, Essays on Political Economy

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

James Fallows

The typical metrosexual is a young man with money to spend, living in or within easy reach of a metropolis - because that's where all the best shops, clubs, gyms and hairdressers are. He might be officially gay, straight or bisexual, but this is utterly immaterial because he has clearly taken himself as his own love object and pleasure as his sexual preference. Particular professions, such as modeling, waiting tables, media, pop music and, nowadays, sport, seem to attract them but, truth be told, like male vanity products and herpes, they're pretty much everywhere.

Mark Simpson

It is new fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

The finiteness, the dependency, and the insufficiency of man

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Jacqueline Bisset

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

Laura Marling

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

Neil Gaiman

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

Jay Kay