The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Jean Rostand

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?

Robbie Coltraine

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

Voltaire

I never look back, I look forward.

Steffi Graf

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

Jonathan Miller

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Henry Adams

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Samuel Richardson

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

John Jay Chapman

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

Gloria Steinem

I put a new engine in my car, but didn't take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles an hour. The harmonica sounds *amazing*.

Steven Wright