Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.

Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

John Updike

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.

Terry Pratchett

Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.

Rose Saperstein

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.

Lester B. Pearson

The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don't know they are.

Kathy Griffin

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

Jean Baudrillard

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

George Eliot

And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.

Al Franken

Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

Orson Scott Card

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Samuel Johnson