Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? – Desiderius Erasmus
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. – Bertrand Russell
Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes its difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because youve got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff. – Graham Coxon
I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldnt look at her. I couldnt hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die. – Brooke Shields
What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news. – Sydney Schanberg