I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

Service is born out of love not duty.

Her cheek against the moss, the young princess she had been - Aelin Galathynius - reached a hand for her. 'Get up', she said softly.

Am I to understand,' said Reepicheep to Lucy after a long stare at Eustace, 'That this singularly discourteous person is under your Majesty's protection? Because, if not--

Technology is lust removed from nature.

I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.

There's things that I couldn't joke about but other people could.

If I could have gave more, I would have done it. I gave everything I had

There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.

Each of us is tied, in some fashion, to the past. We are all part of a continuum.

You know all of my fears. There's nothing your eyes can't see. When I tried to give up Lord, you never gave up on me.