Thoughts, words, emotions

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Ambrose Bierce

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.

Julie Walters

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Denis Waitley

Small service is true service, while it lasts.

William Wordsworth

Without love in you life, you have nothing.

Wynonna Judd

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

James Northcote

Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact.

Christopher Hitchens

A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

Katherine Anne Porter

No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.

Hector Hugh Munro

I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

Nathan Fillion

All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

Eckhart Tolle