The music I love to sing would have to be gospel - it just uplifts me, it takes me to a really good place.

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Jodi Picoult

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.

Carol Ann Duffy

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Martin Buber

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

Plato

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.

Oscar Wilde

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

John Nelson Darby

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Good deeds have echoes.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

Shimon Peres

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

Jane Birkin

I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

John Gresham Machen