Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

No gentleman ever has any money.

Oscar Wilde

And if doctor says that you don't have IBS with constipation, you might want to get a second opinion, because I had doctors that were telling me... of course, a lot of this has to do with science - progressing.

Cybill Shepherd

You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.

Sue Monk Kidd

A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

May Sarton

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

Vaslav Nijinsky

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

L.M. Montgomery

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Russell Baker

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Johann von Goethe

I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.

Rodney Dangerfield

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

J. A. Dever

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing

Ambrose Bierce

We hurt so much because we have lost a part of ourselves. If we have loved much, we must have given much also, and when everything's over, we feel as though we have lost everything.

Jocelyn Soriano