But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

Carter Burwell

We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.

John Edward Gray

Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?

Jane Austen

I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them.

Norman Cook

The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Christopher Hitchens

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

William Faulkner

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

Richard Denney

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

Dhani Harrison

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Neil Gaiman

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

Omar Bongo

All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses which are loaded with artificial ingredients and sodium can get in the way of a healthy diet. My number one advice is to eat fresh, and seasonally.

Todd English