I don't think that at the time, or now, come to think of it, I gave a damn. Foolishly, I wanted truth and idealism, but there was none to be had.

We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you.

Jodi Picoult

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.

Peter Quennell

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

Mark Twain

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Barbara Ehrenreich

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.

Emma Thompson

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

Michel de Montaigne

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp

Terry Pratchett

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Joan of Arc

You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?

Yasmina Khadra

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Lloyd Alexander

As Christians you should be like bridges to Heaven; letting people walk on you to get there.

Tommy Tran

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will admit that or not.

Earl Nightingale