A person who has 'tidied up' has both the words and a tidy area to show for it. It is much harder to find a word that describes the giving-up-things mode of attention a mother is giving to her baby.

Being a mother is not a matter of running through a succession of chores.

Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfyingrelationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for amarathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.

Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love.

The Old Testament is actually pretty raunchy. You might enjoy it.

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.

Men and women balance each other out, and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other.

Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.

People sometimes ask me, because of the blacklisting, "Do you hate the government? Don't you hate white people?" No, it's greed that's the problem.

When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.