Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Vernon Howard

Know the Self as Lord of the chariot, the body as the chariot itself, the discriminating intellect as the charioteer, and the mind as the reins. The senses, say the wise, are the horses; selfish desires are the roads they travel.

Katha Upanishad

We all have the means to bestow on others the most lavish gifts; love, joy, peace, hope, kindness, acceptance, encouragement, laughter, forgiveness, time. There is not enough money to buy them and not too little money to give them. The more you spend, the wealthier you become; yet nothing will cost you more than what you freely possess to give.

Eden Eliot, quotation submitted

Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.

Kurt Vonnegut

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Phillip H. Haberman Jr.

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.

Ralph Merkle

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

Patricia Highsmith

I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

Carlos Fuentes

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

Voltaire

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

For me, marriage should be about partnership. How can you love someone you have to take care of like a child all the time? A wife is supposed to be a partner, and yes partners help each other when they need it, but they are supposed to be together because they want to in my book, not because one needs the other.

Lynsay Sands

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

Voltaire