Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication.

Never abandon imagination

Your home is where your family is... Where someone waits for you and thinks about you.

So, Eva Nine, you must sometimes disregard what someone is saying and focus instead on what they are doing. Watch and observe. That is when one reveals his true self.

Despite what you hear and say there will always be that one voice that will always be true to you.

No living thing is insignificant.

But our knowledge, the things we learn, can carry on in others after we are gone...The toil of this journey, our journey, is the map for those who will follow.

Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living thing is insignificant.

Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures.

I'm a huge fan of process. Even if it's a movie that I don't think is quite as successful, I'm really intrigued by the process of it.

The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, ‘Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?

One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong or disgraceful.

Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

i'm only an independent woman when there's nothing heavy to carry

It is easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came.

If my life had gone in a different direction - some of the choices you makes when you're in your teens and your early 20s, I fortunately feel that I haven't been marked by those things.

No-one ever votes Tory, do they?

Fear is natural. Be with it.