When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.

Our identity as Christians is a purpose-driven life

But I'm not dead, " Blue pointed out."BUT YOU ARE PRETTY SHORT.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.

The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.