All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?

It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.

She felt hot liquid anger suddenly cool and harden into something powerful and immovable.

When someone you loved was depending on your lie, it was perfectly easy.

When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once.

Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces...Ponytails swinging. Eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms of their hands like compasses.

[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Pasta isn't just for Italian food anymore. Now there are tasty pasta recipes found in Asian cuisine, and it's emerging as a newfound love for vegans.

There is something in me that makes me see things through.

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.

No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

Senior members of the security establishment have not been entirely cooperative - let's put it that way - with the operations and still maintain contacts with FDLR leadership.

I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.

At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron.