No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

Elisabetta Canalis

I'd seen entire constellations of possibility I'd never previously been aware of, so blinded had I been by the bright, glaring stars of expectation. Freedom, I was beginning to think, had less to do with where you were, and was more about who you were trying to be.

Nenia Campbell

There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?

C.S. Lewis

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mother never breastfed me. She told me that she only liked me as a friend.

Rodney Dangerfield

The Rough Guide to Nepal; The Great Sights of Canada; America by Car; Fodor's Guide to the Bahamas; Let's go Bhutan.

John Green

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can I just say here how much I hate the word 'pamper'? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women, it actually implies that their bodies are so revolting that even their 'me time' must be dedicated to turning them into living dolls if potential suitors are to be prevented from running screaming in horror.

Julie Burchill

Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.

Jodi Picoult

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The simplest science book is over my head.

James Merrill

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes