I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

Olivia Williams

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

John Dryden

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

Shirley Manson

There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg.

Mary Tyler Moore

Follow your own star!

Dante Alighieri

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

Samuel Johnson

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

Milan Kundera

In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.

Simon Baker

I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.

David Walliams

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Kurt Vonnegut

Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

Wendy Liebman