A young girl needs to spread her wings, but a young woman needs roots.

Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.

Danish proverb

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

Tim Bishop

That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.

Tony Wilson

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Scottish Proverb

Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Amy Lowell

Non violence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

Source Unknown

The education of a man is never complete until he dies.

General Robert E. Lee

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say when!

P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wod

I am always going to be true to myself.

Princess of Wales Diana

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Virginia Woolf

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Kurt Vonnegut

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

Charles de Lint