Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

Milan Kundera

I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

Nicole Krauss

I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. and L.B. I wasn't starving just for a TV program or a piece of music or theater or cinema that wasn't cultist and hero-worshiping. I was . I got off the North Korean plane in Shenyang, one of the provincial capitals of Manchuria, and the airport buffet looked like a cornucopia. I fell on the food, only to find that I couldn't do it justice, because my stomach had shrunk. And as a foreign tourist in North Korea, under the care of vigilant minders who wanted me to see only the best, I had enjoyed the finest fare available.

Christopher Hitchens

People love in different ways. You may have a man who brings you flowers every Monday but doesn't give two hooty-hoots about Valentine's Day. Just because he doesn't give you a valentine doesn't mean he doesn't love you!

Jada Pinkett Smith

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

Earl Nightingale

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

William Butler Yeats

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

Jimmy Smits

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

Kurt Vonnegut

Everyone has a dream.

Rapunzel

Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself.

Caroline Ghosn

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

Geraldine Ferraro