I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

Jackson Browne

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

Fawn M. Brodie

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is what is meant by the phenomenology of the science-making process: Self-observation always leads us to an existential point about the metaphysics of experience, and it is almost always a transforming moment. (p. 286)

Eugene Taylor

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Blaise Pascal

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

Max Brooks

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

William Van Horne

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

James Barrie

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

Christopher Meloni

Sometimes when I remember we aren't the same person, it shocks me.

Laurie Frankel

Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.

Juvenal