Don't tell me what I can't do!
I have always lived the way I wanted regardless of whether or not it was popular.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Life can be real tough. . . you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over.
You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.
I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.
The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.
They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hair—no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They gave off no sheen in the light, no gleam to the eye. They drank up the light and diminished it: they were wings of pure shadow.
Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter.
It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.