So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.

But sometimes this hatred broke like a wave, unexplainably collapsing under its own weight, and before it would begin to well up again, she suddenly felt nothing but pure compassion for him, a kindness and forgiveness that almost broke her heart.

Sana Krasikov

Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Ambrose Bierce

Surely thy body is thy mind, For in thy face is nought to find, Only thy soft unchristened smile, That shadows neither love nor guile.

Robert Bridges

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Michel de Montaigne

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

Sandra Bullock

Widow. The word consumes itself.

Sylvia Plath

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

O love, how did you get here?--Nick and the Candlestick

Sylvia Plath

I have hair that I audition with, my sitcom hair which is a curly wig. I have my long chic hair that I wear to my son's school so they know I'm not playing around. I always tell people that my husband gets a different woman every night when I come home from 'The View.' Hair makes you feel a certain way, like putting a power suit on.

Sherri Shepherd

Ignition (n): The motivational process that occurs when your identity becomes linked to a long-term vision of your future. Triggers significant amounts of unconscious energy; usually marked by the realization: That is who I want to be.

 Daniel Coyle

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

Naomi Campbell

All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.

Herb Shriner