No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.

Oscar Wilde

My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

Balthazar Getty

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

Gillian Anderson

I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

Rick Perry

We all choke. You're not human if you haven t.

Curtis Strange

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

Alan Dean Foster

I tell you Schoonmaker she doesn't know what she has. That's the heart of it. She's like some wild creature who hasn't a clue the worth of its coat.

Anna Godbersen

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Margaret Atwood

It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then as Herschel, after its official Discoverer, and more lately as Uranus.

Thomas Pynchon

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

Jodi Picoult

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Katharine Hepburn

And that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.

John Green