It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.

John Mayer

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Francis Beaumont

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.

Lynda Barry

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

George Orwell

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Doris Day

?Every opportunity missed is an opportunity for regret

Karl Kloppenborg

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Dickens

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

Arna Bontemps

Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

Claire Cook

Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present.

Barbara Barrington Jones

The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.

Alexander Maclaren

Use the right word and not its second cousin

Mark Twain