I should like to know what sacrifices they make. I think it's the children who make the sacrifices. When I want to eat gooseberries and am not allowed to, the sacrifice is _mine_ not _Mother's_.

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.

I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.

I pledge allegiance to the soil of Turtle Island, and to the beings who thereon dwell one ecosystem in diversity under the sun With joyful interpenetratio n for all.

It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets.

When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.

I think it's good for sporting justice that Ronaldo scored twice in the final.

The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not.

Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.