I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

Lawrence Kasdan

Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things --wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete... babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

Eda J. Le Shan

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James

To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.

Jodi Picoult

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

H. L. Mencken

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Oscar Wilde

In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men.

Joseph Conrad

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

Mike Myers

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

Anita Brookner

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

Doris Lessing

In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

Tony Blair