She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved.

Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Nelson Mandela

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Alvin Toffler

If I where to describe myself in one word, a new word should be made.

Anonymous

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

George Bernard Shaw

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

Jessamyn West

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

Thomas Jefferson

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

Bertrand Russell

When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.

Lee Greenwood

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.

Vivienne Westwood

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

Kate Atkinson