"I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in safety, but I do think it's better to be adopted by blacks."

“I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars...”

Source : Ted Hughes (2011). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, p.6, Faber & Faber

“You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.”

Source : "Idina Menzel Relives Childhood Through Motherhood" by Anya, celebritybabies.people.com. January 30, 2011.

“In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.”

“I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.”

Source : Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. May 16,2012.

“You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.”

“If there is a panacea, or cure-all to life, it is self love.”

“Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike.”

“As far as preference between fall and spring collections, I have none that I prefer to design. With fall you have a lot more items, but of course I am from the Dominican Republic, so I love the warm weather.”