Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

Mercedes Lackey

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

Elizabeth I

Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness

Jocelyn Murray

Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?'Jem: 'Yang guizi ... foreign devils.

Cassandra Clare

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

Harry Browne

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

J. K. Rowling

I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

Jamie Oliver

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

Brennan Manning

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Blaise Pascal

I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.

Padma Lakshmi

You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.

Mira Sorvino