Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

A strange lady giving an address in Zurich wrote him [Shaw] a proposal, thus: `You have the greatest brain in the world, and I have the most beautiful body; so we ought to produce the most perfect child.' Shaw asked: `What if the child inherits my body and your brains?'

George Bernard Shaw

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Irena Sendler never thought of herself as a hero. She only did what she felt she must, and wished she could have done more.

Marcia Vaughan

We see many fine sunsets here, unique in the splendour of their colour. No doubt the surroundings in this fairyland of blue and white do much to increase their beauty.

Roald Amundsen

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness.

J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

Paul Newman

I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.

Gayle King

Advertising is legalized lying.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

Paulo Coelho

My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.

Patrick Rothfuss

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

Jean de la Bruyere

The madder it makes you, the harder you need to laugh at it.

Destiny Booze