Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

Margaret Weis

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Robert Collier

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels FREE.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

Robert Benton

Without love in you life, you have nothing.

Wynonna Judd

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.

Theresa May

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'

Chris Evans

Half my life is an act of revision.

John Irving

It was not, after all, so easy to die.

J.K. Rowling

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Lucretius

Those who desire to certify miracles may wish to say that such recoveries have no natural explanation. But this does not at all mean that there is therefore a supernatural one.

Christopher Hitchens

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

Kenny Guinn