"It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult."

“Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded by unknown impulses, take the lifeless mass of humanity and by the fever and ferment with which they imbue it turn this soggy dough into bread and the bread into wine and the wine into song.”

“Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and actions that lead to an unhealthy lifestyle and eventually to illness.... Illness can thus be understood as a lesson you have given yourself to help you remember who you are.”

Source : Barbara Ann Brennan (2011). “Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field”, p.286, Bantam

“Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.”

Source : "Samantha Morton: 'I could play a prostitute convincingly because my best friend was one'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

“It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.”

“We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow.”

“The family is the most important wealth of a nation. May we endeavor to defend and strengthen the foundation of society.”

“I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.”

“When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.”