I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I write.

The best fiction is true.

Kinky Friedman

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Gabriel Heatter

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

Deepak Chopra

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

Cassandra Clare

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

Hillary Clinton

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Christopher Hill

The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated.

Njabulo Ndebele

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry

Samuel Johnson

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.

Mark Twain

He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest?

J.K. Rowling

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

Edward Witten

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

Hillary Clinton