"I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most."

“He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.”

“I feel there's so much pressure, especially for women, to declare what their life's going to be and what their career is, and are you married yet? Are you single? But you're 30. And girlfriends are so important. You can have a boyfriend or husband when you're 30, but you still need your girlfriends.”

“We're not lawbreakers, we're law-abiding, and intend to stay that way.”

“Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]”

“I kind of understand now why people freak out when they see celebrities that they love, because that's how I feel about every single Muppet.”

“The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day.”

Source : Joseph Story (1858). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: with a preliminary review of the constitutional history of the colonies and states, before the adoption of the Constitution”, p.464

“Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”

“I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.”

Source : Joanne Harris (2012). “Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)”, p.456, Random House