I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day.

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

Robert Ballard

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

Carol Ann Duffy

As long as we were living in the spirit we would continue to be blessed

Crystal Flanagan

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.

William F. Buckley

I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me.

Susan Smith

A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.

Virgil, Aeneid

Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

Omar Khayyam

I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate.

Eva Herzigova

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

George Steiner, Real Presences,

When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

Kate Atkinson

Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle.

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's