Initializing Quotes

#1. I dreamed of death the way previously I'd dreamed of the pain leaving me, and the way before that I'd dreamed of gardens and children and weekends away. Death was my elusive lover, treasured and longed for and jealously guarded, and always distant. Always out of reach.

Elizabeth Haynes

#2. The state is made for man, not man for the state ... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

Albert Einstein

#3. I listen to a lot of '80s stuff, like 'Owner of a Lonely Heart,' by the group Yes. And Mr. Mister's 'Broken Wings.'

Timbaland

#4. Parents don't have the luxury of being reasonable, not any more than a religious person does. What can make religious people and parents so utterly insufferable is also what makes religion and Parenthood so utterly beautiful: the All or nothing wager. The Faith.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#5. There is no recipe for friendship. Just a bunch of ingredients that different people put together in different ways to create something magical between them.

Toni Sorenson

#6. If there is a secular equivalent of standing in a great spired Cathedral with marble pillars and streams of mystic light slanting through two-tier Gothic windows, it would be watching children in their little bedrooms fast asleep. Girls especially.

Don DeLillo

#7. I adore Madonna. She reinvents herself like no one else.

Jonathan Dimbleby