One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy.

Ogwo David Emenike

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.

Jami Gertz

People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.

Rene Redzepi

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

Johann von Goethe

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Iris Murdoch

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Barbara de Angelis

They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior. There is but one greater than us, and to him... to him we no longer speak.

Neil Gaiman

Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing.

Rebecca Johns

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

Cory Doctorow

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.

Thomas Howard