Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

Augusten Burroughs

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

T. Boone Pickens

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

Kahlil Gibran

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

Livy

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.

Esai Morales

I can't give a Professor love!

J.K. Rowling

For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present

George Eliot

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

Hillary Clinton

...I committed a sin the day I refused you - I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be - forgive me, Love, for acting on principles...

John Geddes

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Rosalind Russell