My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.

Ogden Nash

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

Terry Pratchett

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

Woodrow Wilson

Partings are the beginnings of new meetings.Beginnings happen because there are endings.

Natsuki Takaya

Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favour of things which seem at some given moment more vital.

Heywood Broun, The Miracle of De

There are plenty of theories to listen to and follow but truth yearns to be discovered. When you find it, there is no doubt where to go.

E'yen A. Gardner

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus

Human love is not love. Love is natural to every body but it becomes human love as the person learns from society to confuse love with sex.

Barry Long

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

Leo Tolstoy

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

André Gide

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

W. E. B. Du Bois

My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.

Julie Walters