Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Because, sometimes you've to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've to think about the greater good! This is war!

J.K. Rowling

Everyone hears only what he understands.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

Ian Hislop

The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.

Julie Benz

I know I told you once that whether God exists or not, we're on our own. But when I'm with you, I'm not.

Cassandra Clare

Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.

W. H. Auden

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Thomas J. Watson

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

Carl Hiaasen

I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

Steven Wright

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats I am only surprised that all do not.

Carl Van Vechten

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

William Osler

Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.

Robert A. Heinlein