I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Henry David Thoreau

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

Rudyard Kipling

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

George Eliot

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

Miranda Richardson

Men have social needs. They have a need for other people; they have a need to love and be loved.

Carroll Quigley

Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.

John Marmysz

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardner

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

John Ruskin

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Anatole France

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Frank Swinnerton

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Henry A. Kissinger