The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. Eubie Blake At Age 100

Eubie Blake

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Jane Harrison

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.

Stephen King

In those moments it's hard to remember that an angry voice is an invisible thing incapable of drawing blood.

Amanda Howells

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frank Norris

I've never had any health problems and I'm Ruben, man, all the way through.

Ruben Studdard

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

Cesar Chavez

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

William Shakespeare

In early infancy, the baby tends to experience herself andher mother as one, a union. If the mother responds attentively and empathetically to the infant, a life-sustaining function is provided which is felt to be part of thebaby

Andrew P. Morrison, The Culture

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

John Naisbitt

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.

Terry Pratchett

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Ralph Waldo Emerson