Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.

The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities,reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.

It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.

I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.

Their friendship is like a tapestry in a drawer. Today is the iron passing over the cloth, smoothing out the wrinkles, bring out the pattern that makes it unique and beautiful.

Somewhere I read that human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future.

Sophie felt as if she were encased in a glass globe called summer.

Oh, good. Okay, I'd like to get more sleep before I have to figure out how we find a Sith Lord in Washington.

The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons.

The dignity of labor depends not on what you do, but how you do it.

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields ... is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.

Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits.