Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Maya Lin

Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

Don Williams, Jr

Love is like a big juicy steak. You bite into it, enjoy it, then regret the calories you gained, when you're standin on your scale the next morning.See,I don't eat steak. I'm a vegetarian.

Euphoria Godsent

Where others see complexity, the person of action sees the thing that needs to be done.

Michael Lipsey

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Julio Cortazar

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

Jean M. Auel

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

Billy Sunday

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

Janice Dickinson

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.

Jodi Picoult

But everything I have to give, I'll give to you

Ray LaMontagne

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

Baldwin Spencer