One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

I had always imagined that Clich? was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

Philip Guedalla

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

Rory Bremner

O pray the earth enfold Our life-sick hearts and turn them into dust.

Ernest Dowson

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Gene Fowler

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16, and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old, and I had to hide the relationship.

Ellen Pompeo

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time.

Carl Sagan

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Michelangelo

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

Oscar Wilde

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.

Sylvia Browne

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

Sandra Bullock