The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

Ann Romney

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Arthur C. Clarke

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

Andrej Pejic

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you're not confused, I don't think you understand.

Charlie Munger

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?

C.S. Lewis

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

Lascelles Abercrombie

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

Criss Jami

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

George Eliot

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

Chris Pine