Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have---and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.

The most important political office is that of private citizen.

Louis D. Brandeis

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.

Bill Cosby

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

David Mccord

You need to get in touch with your body ... do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone who's coordinated, preferably. You have to study, train, and you don't have to go to school necessarily, you can teach yourself a lot of stuff.

Jacqueline Bisset, Interview on

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Mark Strand

I think about food all the time. It's my passion it's my profession. But some people think about food all the time because they're hungry. We can put an end to this if we join forces and lend a hand.

Cat Cora

Reviewers...must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward.

Walter Kerr, Statement quoted in

Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.

R. H. Hutton

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Hugh Prather

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

Arthur P. Stanley

Surfers have the most attitude.

Shaun White