"I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real Virginia Woolf time. More than any language it was her language that influenced me."

“The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.”

“Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.”

“I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”

“A child's death is really of less value than an adult's. I mean, what could you really accomplish in a year? Not much, and that's not even talking about, you know, pay-wise.”

“I put more pressure on myself to do well. I know how good I can be and I don't want to fall short of that.”

“Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.”

Source : "Elisha Cuthbert says people will 'get a kick out of' abduction flick" by Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. July 11, 2007.

“A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.”

Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

“Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.”