I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.

Joan Welsh

When it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do, rather, before the question is raised, it has done the deed, and keeps on doing it

Martin Luther King Jr.

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

Winston Churchill

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

Iain Duncan Smith

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Jean Cocteau

Falsehoods which we spurn to-day Were the truths of long ago.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison

Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see

William Shakespeare

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst; the last is a real tragedy!

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's F

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

Mitch McConnell

I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

Anne Rice