Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

Jodi Picoult

Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

George McGovern

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of color in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play. I tell you Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.

Oscar Wilde

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

Brian Eno

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Helen Keller

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Henry David Thoreau

He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest?

J.K. Rowling

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Major Owens

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

Cindy Crawford

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

Edmund White

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Ursula K. Le Guin