Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Benjamin Disraeli

I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

J. C. Watts

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

David Herbert Lawrence

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

Maggie Stiefvater

But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

Orson Scott Card

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

Roberta Flack

love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

Nicholas Sparks

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

Rosalyn S. Yalow

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.

Tahereh Mafi

Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer.

Pauly Shore

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

Joe Baca

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Mark Hopkins