I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid.

Jodi Picoult

Anytime you think that the problem is out there, that thought in itself may be the problem. If it is out there then you have no control and you have to wait until it changes.

Source Unknown

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges

Kahlil Gibran

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

Maurice Sendak

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

George Osborne

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist; my novel & story-writing ability is employed as a means to formulate my perception. The core of my writing is not art but truth. Thus what I tell is the truth, yet I can do nothing to alleviate it, either by deed or explanation. Yet this seems somehow to help a certain kind of sensitive troubled person, for whom I speak. I think I understand the common ingredient in those whom my writing helps: they cannot or will not blunt their own intimations about the irrational, mysterious nature of reality, &, for them, my corpus is one long ratiocination regarding this inexplicable reality, an integration & presentation, analysis & response & personal history.

Philip K. Dick, Exegesis Philip

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

George Weinberg

What is art? Prostitution.

Charles Baudelaire