Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

Bertrand Russell

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.

Neil Gaiman

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Louisa May Alcott

Today there were fear, hatred,and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows

George Orwell

I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

Yoshihiko Noda

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

Suzanne Collins

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty—they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.end quote

Martin Buxbaum

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

John Cleese

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing it well or you're doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That is actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

John Green

I've never heard of anybody getting rid of their prized Exile postcards, much less actually writing on them and sending them through the mail to a girl. I watched these two, laughing over this story at the same kitchen table they've shared for thirty years. I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

Rob Sheffield

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

Robert Carlyle