The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.

Kate Hudson

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.

William Ellery Channing

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

James Russell Lowell

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

Mark Twain

As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.

Victor Hugo

I wouldn't know what to do on a date. I don't have the time. To make a relationship work, I'd have to give something up, and I'm not so sure I'm willing to do that.

Tim Gunn

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Marianne Williamson

I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.

Bill Kreutzmann

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Piet Hein

I'm not afraid of death.

Maurice Sendak

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

Theodore Roethke