My kids are my life and the thought of someone taking them away from me is my worst nightmare.

No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.

Henry Miller

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

Julie Burchill

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Havelock Ellis

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.

R. D. Laing

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

Steve Jobs

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

George Eliot

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Abraham Lincoln

Women and men who have established no-lie relationships talk about them with reverence, even when they are not permanent and, in fact, even when they are not romantic. Why? In the no-lie relationship there is acceptance of who each partner is, rather than a shallow idealization. There is a genuine commitment to the relationship beyond the immediate. You each act as though you are in a real partnership that will last.

Dory Hollander

I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.

Marc Forgione

Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.

Jenna Dewan

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

Nelly

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

George V. Higgins