While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

Alice Hoffman

Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.

Hugh Blair

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Ronald Reagan

I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes.

Jodi Picoult

Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean to maintain the slave trade while the very same empire later sent another fleet to enforce abolition. I would not have opposed the second policy because of my objections to the first; rather it seems to me that the second policy was morally necessitated by its predecessor.)

Christopher Hitchens

Physical courage is a great test.

Oriana Fallaci

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

Albion W. Small

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent

William Shakespeare

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Princess of Wales Diana

Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with our future.

Shoghi Effendi