Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.

Jodi Picoult

There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.

Jonathan Sacks

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Simon Van Booy

You don't love people at their best, sweetheart. You just love them because you can't help it.

Amy Lane

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Roy Disney

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.

Khaled Hosseini

To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

Clara Zetkin

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

Elton John

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

Madeleine Albright

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

Sappho

And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

John Milton