We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.

Ray Floyd

What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

Mehmet Oz

The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

Margaret Oliphant

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

William O. Douglas

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Robert Benchley

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

John Ruskin

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

Charles de Lint

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

Jane Austen

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

Robert Mondavi

I definitely think we get a lot of respect for what we do, but I definitely think that some people don't like us, which is fine.

Matt Stone

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

Napoleon Hill