Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

B. F. Skinner

Angelina came up, and as soon as we said hello, I thought, This is going to be great. I'm really going to love doing this with her. And I did. And then I was very excited to do the movie after that.

Gerard Butler

My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk she sang. She was a tower of strength.

Jayne Meadows

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Jessica Lange

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Peter Drucker

Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Havelock Ellis

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

Frank Carson

A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.

John Selden

His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent if we had ten thousand billion years.

Lauren Oliver

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Elbert Hubbard

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination; all compact.

William Shakespeare

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

Aaron Allston