My health and my family are the core of my being.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Ambrose Bierce

Sweet is the dream, divinely sweet,When absent souls in fancy meet.

Thomas Moore, from: To Julia

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.

Alton Brown

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Zig Ziglar

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.

Ruby Wax

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.

Clive James

Hotter than me? --Jace

Cassandra Clare

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Simone de Beauvoir

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Alexander Wilson

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan