Quite honestly, a baby covered in blood, still slightly blue, eyes screwed up, in the first few minutes after birth, is not an object of beauty.

The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.

Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!

I've loved someone since I was seventeen but I can't have him and I can't give him up. So until I can do that no one else will stand a chance.

Love doesn't adhere to time and boundaries does it? It just is.

That's the trouble, I can't forget him. He was everything to me, except mine.

Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself

Their devotion showed me there were no versions of love there was only... Love. That it had no equal and that it was worth searching for, even if that search took a lifetime.

I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all.

Sister Monica Joan murmured, as though to herself, but loud enough to be heard by all, "How perfectly charming. Old enough to know it all, and young enough to blush. Perfectly charming.

Perhaps, in a few people, I have seen what can be described as a struggle with death, and it can be distressing to behold. But for the vast majority of people death is gentle, tender.

To realize the importance the imagination could have in friendship, to understand its immense power for bringing us together in a way.

Those who are not lazy will have a better chance for a steadfast future.

Anonymity crowned him as if t'were the halo of romantic glory.

How can any person with a myopic view and harbouring intense parochial attitude even think of leading the nation?

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.

A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

If there's somebody that I love that's in my life, I don't necessarily have to agree with their decisions or the decisions they've made to continue to love them and participate in important events.

Know what you did last summer, so I started hookin'