Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.

While you are waiting to die, you have to live.

It would be wrong to kill oneself if one did not know exactly the nature of one's eyes.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

In the struggle between the “needs” of the soul and the “wants” of the body, satisfy the soul first for it carries also the riches of the body.

You think writing a book is hard? Wait until you give it to someone to read.

A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive.

You don't get to choose, " Lincoln said. "It's just happening.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.