When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

Nancy Sinatra

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

Alexander McCall Smith

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Gustave Flaubert

I told you growing starts from the inside first, honey, and in that way, you've been growing like wildfire.

Phoebe Stone

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

Erwin Schrodinger

Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.

Peter Guber

People never care how much you know until they know how much you care.

John C. Maxwell

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

Jodi Picoult

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

Jessica Savitch

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

Evelyn Waugh

One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that it conferred 'experience' on the despised and much-deceived wife. Well, the main 'experience' involved the comprehensive fouling-up of the nation's health-care arrangements, so as to make them considerably worse than they had been before and to create an opening for the worst-of-all-worlds option of the so-called HMO, combining as it did the maximum of capitalist gouging with the maximum of socialistic bureaucracy. This abysmal outcome, forgiven for no reason that I can perceive, was the individual responsibility of the woman who now seems to think it entitles her to the presidency.

Christopher Hitchens