Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Price of peace could only be valued by people who had suffered loss in the war.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.

Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.

I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable.

The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.