"And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready."

“Mommies can't look gross!' J.J. protested.”

“People need to have 'the dignity of risk' and 'the right to fail'.”

“Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when it doesn't seem to make a dime's worth of difference to the ones on whom it is lavished, it is still the most prized of all virtues because it is at the heart of the very character of God.”

“Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal.”

Source : Jan Morris (2011). “A Writer's World”, p.279, Faber & Faber

“Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.”

Source : Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

“Brazil was, is, and will be in fashion.”

Source : "Brazil's Gilberto Gil, Minister of Cool". edition.cnn.com. September 01, 2003.

“Belts are immaterial. What's material to me is who have you fought, how many rounds have you fought, how many fights have you fought.”

“You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.”