Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit

My mom's passionate and energetic and very funny and enthusiastic.

Eric Stonestreet

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Oliver Cromwell

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Ambrose Bierce

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Johann von Goethe

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

George Bernard Shaw

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Terry Riley

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

Jennifer Lawrence

You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely.

Jodi Picoult

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)