We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

Steve Maraboli

At last God caught his eye.

Harry Secombe

Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet... and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.

Terry Pratchett

Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.

Source Unknown

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Elie Wiesel

In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?

Cornelia Funke

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

J. G. Ballard

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

George Eliot

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

Mahatma Gandhi

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Chris Cooper