"Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim."

“My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.”

“Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they’re not being truthful, more often than not it’s because they think truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn’t mean they don’t love you.”

“The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.”

Source : John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

“We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.”

“I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition.”

“I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.”

Source : "Q&A: Tracey Ullman" by Devin Gordon, www.newsweek.com. September 19, 2004.

“To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.”

“Human life commences at the time of conception.”