Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

Ann Voskamp

All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.

Samantha Mumba

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

George Herbert

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

Andrew Sullivan

One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five or six feet high, and float buoyantly there like a duck, cunningly taking to its wings and lifting itself a few feet through the air over the foaming crest of each breaker, but sometimes outriding safely a considerable billow which hid it some seconds, when its instinct told it that it would not break. It was a little creature thus to sport with the ocean, but it was as perfect a success in its way as the breakers in theirs.

Henry David Thoreau, The Beach A

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

Carrie-Anne Moss

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change

Karl Lagerfeld

Our concern must be to live while we're alive... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Elisabeth KublerRoss

Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it.

Frank Warren

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

Jasmine Guy

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Jeremy Taylor