I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

Sir Thomas Browne

...because I went to London on my own, and because I went to solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

Mark Haddon

Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.

J.R.R. Tolkien

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Andre Godin

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.

John Keats

When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

Ozwald Boateng

and the cost of a thing is the amountof what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it,immediately or in the long run

Henry David Thoreau

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

Anthony J. F. O'Reilly

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

Don Van Vliet

I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real.

Dyan Cannon

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

John Drummond

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?

Jennifer Garner