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

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.

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?'

A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

Please don't smile like that. Your heart is full of feelings that you've kept to yourself. Don't laugh as if you don't know anything.

An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.

Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.

Fire isn’t good or bad. It just burns.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.