Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

James E. Rogers

It's amazing how good getting up and moving makes you feel.

Paula Deen

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Wallace Stevens

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

Diane Keaton

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

John Ralston Saul

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

Janet Fitch

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

Ang Lee

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites instead it fragments.

Maggie Gallagher

Love is not an easy feeling to put into words. Nor is loyalty, or trust, or joy. But he was all of these. He loved life completely and he lived it intensely.

Ted Kennedy

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Shirley Jackson