If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Barbara Kingsolver

The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor, the wise and the foolish, the good and the bad

Samuel Johnson

To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.

Peter Henry Abrahams, The View F

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Ambrose Bierce

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

Shania Twain

I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

Padma Lakshmi

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time

William Butler Yeats

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

Lance Ito

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

Dave Barry

Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.

William Shakespeare

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

Andrea Dworkin

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.

Napoleon Bonaparte