My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.

Walter Savage Landor

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

Source Unknown

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.

Ken Blanchard

Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Jane Austen

My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'

Archie Panjabi

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

Thomas Perry

Did you let him know that if he can't see fit to return your blow job immediately, you will have no choice but to sue?

Meg Cabot

What was life? It was warmth, the warmth generated by a form-preserving instability, a fever of matter, which accompanied the process of ceaseless decay and repair of protein molecules that were too impossibly ingenious in structure.

Thomas Mann

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

Thornton Wilder

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Ralph Nader

He gives us the very quintessence of perception,

James Russell Lowell

Some want to be owned, and some want to be saved. Only some want to exist in the glow of contentment.

Umair Naeem