It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

The light of love flows out of my soul, but it can go nowhere because it's blocked by pain. I could inhale and exhale every morning for the rest of my life, but that wouldn't solve anything.

Paulo Coelho

No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

Harlan Coben

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Samuel Johnson

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Dorothy Parker

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

Anna Chlumsky

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

Pearl S. Buck

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 mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

J. J. Abrams

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

Patti Stanger

I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.

Camila Alves

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

Mark Twain