Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

Phyllis Schlafly

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

Nelson Rockefeller

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

Jean Giraudoux

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

Ed Helms

Success is not the absence of failure. Success is persistence through failure.

Aisha Tyler

A good soldier is a poor scout.

American Indian Proverb, Cheyenn

I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

Janet Evanovich

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Eleanor Roosevelt

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

Marilyn Monroe

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you...and protect me, for today I could betray you.

Augustine of Hippo

Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.

Marc Jacobs