I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

English Proverb

I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others.

Lauryn Hill

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Jackie Collins

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

Aldous Huxley

Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger.

Noah Benshea

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Woody Allen

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Aristotle

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

Herbert Simon

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

Irving Babbitt

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Stephen King

It seems to have had an order, to have been composed by someone, and those events that were merely accidental when they happened turn out to be the main elements in a consistent plot. Who composed this plot? Just as your dreams are composed, so your whole life has been composed by the will within you. Just as the people who you met by chance became effective agents in the structuring of your life, so you have been the agent in the structuring of other lives. And the whole thing gears together like one big symphony, everything influencing and structuring everything else. It's as though our lives were the dream of a single dreamer in which all of the dream characters are dreaming too. And so everything links to everything else moved out of the will in nature...It is as though there were an intention behind it yet it is all by chance. None of us lives the life that he had intended.

Joseph Campbell, source uncertai

If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson