The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

Erma Bombeck

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

Jodi Picoult

A library implies an act of faith.

Victor Hugo

If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Gregory Nunn

I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.

Shannon Hale

Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regrettedmost of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

Nora Ephron

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

David Friedman

Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.

George Fox

I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

Julianna Baggott

I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.

Sherry Stringfield