My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

Swami Vivekananda

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

Nora Roberts

Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?

Cassandra Clare

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

Kim Deal

?What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Johann von Goethe

No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.

Lord Thomas Dewar

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

Michael Crichton

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

Mahatma Gandhi

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

Gloria Steinem