Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything - funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits.

Seal

Penser, c'est réapprendre ? voir, ? être attentif, c'est diriger sa conscience, c'est faire de chaque idée et de chaque image, ? la façon de Proust, un lieu privilégié

Albert Camus

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Christopher Hitchens

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

Charles Dickens

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Victor Hugo

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.

Honore de Balzac

Skeptics are never deceived.

Proverb

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.

Lea Michele

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

Patty Duke

History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeeds; but if they do not, they grow impatient. Therefore, the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their minds. So questions like Anne's are worth asking. To ask them is a very fine kind of human behavior. If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

Mary Doria Russell