But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.

To see your friend's dreams come true, there's really nothing that can make you happier.

Josh Hopkins

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.

Leonard Nimoy

When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.

Courteney Cox

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

John Wooden

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Beck

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

Norah Jones

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Walter Bagehot

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do

Thomas Jefferson

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

George Bernard Shaw

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Charles Dickens

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Marty Allen

Where there's tea there's hope.

Arthur Wing Pinero