Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

Lance Armstrong

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.

Chuck Close

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

Arthur Eddington

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Louise Driscoll

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harms we do, we do to ourselves.

Mitch Albom, The Five People You

We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

Richard M. Daley

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Alfred Hitchcock

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

Aldous Huxley

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

Thomas Carlyle

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Alice Mackenzie Swaim

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

Barbra Streisand