"I'm very happy that being gay and married and having kids has become such an accepted piece of the fabric of America."

“In a forbearance, the homeowner pays interest and principal on a smaller mortgage, at least for a time, but still owes the full amount. The lower monthly payment helps with affordability, giving stressed homeowners a break.”

“I don't care about three years ago - I don't care about two years ago. I don't care about last year. The only thing I care about is this week.”

“The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.”

“Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.”

Source : "Cycle killer: David Byrne on the joys of cycling" by David Byrne, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2009.

“How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that you've lost your memory, more like you're submerged in it, like you're living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past.”

Source : Jackie Kay (2012). “Red Dust Road: Picador Classic”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

“The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.”

“I'm not suspicious, I'm just careful.”