We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

John Lancaster Spalding, Means a

We must love one another or die.

W. H. Auden

The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.

Malcolm Turnbull

On hearing about powerful love, respond, be moved like an aesthete. Only, fortunate as you've been, remember how much your imagination created for you.

Constantine P. Cavafy

Quand je n'ai pas de bleu, je mets du rouge.

Picasso

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

Louis Kossuth

The cure for writers cramp is writer's block.

Inigo de Leon

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Benjamin Franklin

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb

So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him. [...] It's a difficult question and not one you can answer until you're faced with it. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

Christopher Paolini