He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

On the one hand I wonder, Was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story to be told. But the truth is that I didn't think anybody was going to read it.

Kathryn Stockett

I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.

Eliza Dushku

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

Voltaire

How goodness heightens beauty!

Milan Kundera

I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Before I could reply, he had picked me up, literally swept me off my feet, and kissed me. And afterwards, when I tried to speak, he silenced me in much the same manner. It was a shock (but not at all distasteful) to be so caught up. Later - when he at last set me down - he handled me more gently. He took of my glasses and told me that he loved me.

Jennifer Paynter

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

Abel Stevens

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

Bernard Crick

The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool.

Andy Cohen

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Max Fuller

The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein, Interview, 1930