All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Henry Miller

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

Walter Mosley

You know I won't turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.

William Hogarth

How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention!

John Greenleaf Whittier

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

Ruby Wax

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

Harvey Weinstein

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

Philip Pullman

To create a little flower is the labor of ages.

William Blake

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Nigel Lawson

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

Jean de la Bruyere

I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

Eric McCormack

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...

Abraham Lincoln