He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.

Ashlee Simpson

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

The one word that makes a good manager -- decisiveness.

Lee Iacocca

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

Kevyn Aucoin

There is always time for failure.

John Mortimer

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

W. H. Auden

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

Fay Weldon

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Thomas Jefferson

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Albert Camus

It's rest I want--there, I have said it out--From cooking meals for hungry hired menAnd washing dishes after them--from doingThings over and over that just won't stay done.By good rights I ought not to have so muchPut on me, but there seems no other way.Len says one steady pull more ought to do it.He says the best way out is always through.And I agree to that, or in so farAs that I can see no way out but through--Leastways for me--and then they'll be convinced.http://melange.enigmatic.org/archive/2004-06/bestwayoutisthrough.php

Robert Frost, A Servant to Serva

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

Henry David Thoreau, The Writing

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Aldous Huxley