Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

Jodi Picoult

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

Samuel Goldwyn

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

Alexander Pope

If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.

Lou Holtz

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

Charlotte Bunch

Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Ambrose Bierce

People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.

Amy Sedaris

I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.

Angus Wilson

...why did we wait for any thing?--why not seize the pleasure at once?--How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Jane Austen

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

Hugh Laurie

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

Jodi Picoult

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

A. W. Tozer