I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized and I still had a daughter who I adored and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. Rowling
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith, but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Cruelty has a human heart, And jealousy a human face, Terror the human form divine, And secrecy the human dress.
William Blake
I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
William Shatner
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George Eliot
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and as it proved unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
Winston Churchill
