I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.

Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.

Vincent Massey

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Max Beerbohm

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

Jennifer Aniston

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leansUpon his hoe and gazes on the ground,The emptiness of ages in his face,And on his back the burden of the world.Who made him dead to rapture and despair,A thing that grieves not and that never hopes,Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw?Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow?Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?

Edwin Markham, The Man with the

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

Thomas Huxley

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

Jean M. Auel

One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.

Ally Condie

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

John Ruskin

Shortly after you left the room, Bushell came over and spoke to your father. I was not near enough to hear what he said, but Maria Lucas told me afterwards that he had been -' (she smiled) 'amazingly impertinent.''Peter actually spoke to Papa?''He did. According to Maria, he had the impudence to criticise Mr Bennet for his treatment of you. I must say it gives me the most favourable idea of his character.

Jennifer Paynter

I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love.

John Green

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love.

Paulo Coelho