For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Garrison Keillor

There is a crack in everything God has made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

Sharon Shinn

A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.

Lionel Shriver

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

Betsey Johnson

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

Alan Lightman, Einstein

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

Mary Kay Ash

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Doug Gwyn

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

Isaac Rosenberg

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Edith Wharton

A mother understands what a child does not say.

Yiddish Proverb