I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for, " Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

Objection!" Metz shouts.Grounds?" the judge asks.Well...he's my witness!

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

You can believe something really hard, ' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.

My son's always showing me pictures of dinosaurs and asking me what their names are. I dont know so I make stuff up: That son is a thesaurus.

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

Today, Paris is the capital of the world.

Every nation has to either be with us or against us. Those who harbor terrorists or who finance them, uh, are going to pay a price.

There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change!

Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.

It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.

None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right.