Love is random; fear is inevitable.

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

Sue Grafton

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Oscar Wilde

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

Paul Wellstone

Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.

Suze Orman

After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.

Brittany Snow

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel.

Hassan Nasrallah

Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.

Margaret Dilloway

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Lord Kames

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

John Lennon

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.

Kahlil Gibran