I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race

Bertrand Russell

First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.

Michelle Pfeiffer

There are two allied powers in man; knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is so much of the truth seen in a distorted medium as the mind arrives at by groping, wisdom what the eye of divine vision sees in the spirit.

Sri Aurobindo

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Leo Rosten

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

Dick Wolf

The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Samuel Butler

It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.

Lee Child

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

Charlize Theron

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Amy Carmichael

We read to know we are not alone.

C.S. Lewis

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Victor Hugo