The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Barbara Pym

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.

Steve Backley

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.

J. G. Ballard

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

Jodi Picoult

A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Sinclair Lewis

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Sir Walter Scott

I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled.

Paul M. Glaser

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

Richard Dawkins

Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I tried to seek a little 'off the beaten trail,' but cool area.

Todd English

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

Billie Jean King