You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time

Virginia Woolf

But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

Oscar Wilde

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

Michael Morpurgo

My heart does not desire what my eyes does not admire.

Habeeb Akande

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

Samuel Johnson

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.

Rod Serling, introduction to the

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

Oscar Wilde

Find a need and fill it.

Ruth Stafford Peale

Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.

Christopher Hitchens

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

James E. Casey

Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer than to realize his/her work is unquestionably better than that of someone who actually got paid for his/her stuff?

Stephen King

Frailty, thy name is woman

William Shakespeare