You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

John Updike

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Heraclitus

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

Source Unknown

I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love.

John Green

I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.

Wolfgang Puck

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Jean Paul Richter

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

W. Clement Stone

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

Barbara Bush

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

Albert Einstein

Never sit while your seniors stand.

American Indian Proverb, Cree

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.

Michael Kinsley

Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Helen Hoover Santmyer