I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

Imelda Marcos

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Antoine De SaintExupery

Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?

Mark Lawrence

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Marcus Aurelius

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

Will Rogers

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

Eric Hoffer

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read something of B s. Will B show A? If not, then A hates B, if yes, then all is well. The only other way for writers to meet is to share a quick pee over a common lamp-post.

Cyril Connolly

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

Karen Armstrong

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Sir Walter Raleigh