Why does love, even such love as he claims to practise, need the spectacle of beauty to bring it to life? What, in the abstract, do shapely legs have to do with love, or for that matter with desire? Or is that just the nature of nature, about which one does not ask questions?

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

Jodi Picoult

Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Ambrose Bierce

While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens all of our comfort zones. Faith offends the stationary.

Leonard Ravenhill

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

Diane Sawyer

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

Kahlil Gibran, The Voice of the

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

Neil Gaiman

when we really connect with who God is we will find He is better than anything we could ever imagine

Shelley Hitz

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Susie Bright

Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Blaise Pascal

I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.

Anthony Weiner

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

Robin Quivers

I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters.

Sophie Thompson