My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.

Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.

Robert Anton Wilson

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

John Irving

It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began.

Francine Rivers

The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.

Angela Ruggiero

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate

Christopher Hampton

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Charles de Gaulle

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Thomas Hardy

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

Amy Plum

Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.

Joe Torre

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

David Satcher

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

Carrie Brownstein