I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

Oscar Wilde

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

Ernest Renan

He had come on her that morning in a moment of disarray; her face had been pale and altered, and the diminution of her beauty had lent her a poignant charm. That is how she looks when she is alone! had been his first thought; and the second was to note in her the change which his coming produced.

Edith Wharton

I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl.

Harvey Weinstein

What little Jack does not learn, big John will never.

Proverb

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Eli Stanley Jones

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.

Kathleen Parker

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

Geraldine Ferraro

One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly disco

Albert Einstein

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

George Michael

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

J.K. Rowling