The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

John Selden

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Joseph Addison

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

Patina Miller

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

George Santayana

To die is landing on some distant shore.

John Dryden

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

Publilius Syrus

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The maxims are, first, that the individual is not accountable to society for his actions, in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. Advice, instruction, persuasion, and avoidance by other people if thought necessary by them for their own good, are the only measures by which society can justifiably express its dislike or disapprobation of his conduct. Secondly, that for such actions as are prejudicial to the interests of others, the individual is accountable, and may be subjected either to social or to legal punishment, if society is of opinion that the one or the other is requisite for its protection.

John Stuart Mill

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Helen Keller

Even God doesn't plan to judge a man till the end of his days, why should you and I?

Source Unknown

You did not go through everything you've gone through just to end up in the same place you were when you started.

Steve Maraboli