Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.

All The Things I Transformed By My Loving Soul, God, I Really Do Hope ...No One Is Ever Going To Love Them ...Ever Again.Petra Hermans

If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.

I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

The more validation I need, the less discernment I have.

Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance.

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

We as women are always watching movies and if you want to be cool you have to identify with the man in the movie.