My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.

Jean Genet

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

Wilson Mizner

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution

Oscar Wilde

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Woman reduces us all to a common denomination

George Bernard Shaw

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Oscar Wilde

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

Oliver Goldsmith

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

Sophia Loren

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

Laura Carmichael

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Jean Paul

If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.

Selena Gomez

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

Miguel de Cervantes