You know, I was a kid when I went into 'Coronation Street' and I had an amazing time. I got some fantastic opportunities from Corrie and from 'Soapstar' and I'd never say they did anything other than help me.

America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs called betters. Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.

Florence King

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Phillips Brooks

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Aristotle

To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Marilyn French

The best thing in life aren't things.

John Ruskin

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

Polly Toynbee

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

Barbra Streisand

Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead from itself never turning.

Walter Raleigh, Sr.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt...

Jean Rostand

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C. S. Lewis

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

G. K. Chesterton