Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Manuel Puig

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

Armstrong Williams

Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.

Rachel Boston

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Theodore Roethke

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

Richard Wagner

What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Blaise Pascal

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

Gordon Ramsay

The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general.

Jiang Zemin

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

Al Gore

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Paul Ambroise Valery

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Chinese Proverb