A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Maya Angelou

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Bernard Baruch

abstraction, n.Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.

David Levithan

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

Edward Hoagland

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR?Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither.

Terry Pratchett

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Sir Humphrey Davy

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

Sophocles

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.

Shirley Conran

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Plato

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Eva Gabor

I find few things more personally enriching than exploring the parameters of my own ignorance.

Steve Maraboli

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Martin Luther