So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.

David Puttnam

Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.

Anne Lamott

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Margaret Thatcher

Be like a branch of a tree; flex your body to face 'wind of sorrow'; flex little harder to dance in the 'wind of happiness'.

Santosh Kalwar

Don't you know a kiss would change the world forever?

Theric Jepson

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

When man to man shall be friend and brother.

Gerald Massey

I could turn on my side, and she might turn on her side, too. And then we could kiss. But what's the point of kissing her now, anyway? It won't go anywhere. We are both staring at the cloudles sky. Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will, she says.

John Green

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Jules Verne

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

Trent Reznor

Who prays for Satan? Who, in 1,800 years, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Mark Twain

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi