It always made me sad that there were kids who didn't have homes.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

David Hare

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.

Samuel Johnson

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

Lynn Davies

I like to travel and connect.

Richard Powers

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Wendell Berry

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything that it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Erica Jong

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

W. Somerset Maugham

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

Paul Graham

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Friedrich Nietzsche