There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, 'You can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.'

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

Richard Stallman

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

Miguel Indurain

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

George Burns

Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into the wilderness, let Congress jargon as it will,can such a form of so-called Government continue for any length of time to torment men with the semblance, when the indispensable substance is not there.

Thomas Carlyle

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

Honore de Balzac

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

Jennifer Garner

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

Terri Clark

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

George Sand

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Kahlil Gibran