I don't make decisions based on money.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Herbert Hoover

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Don Marquis

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Henry David Thoreau

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

Wallace Stevens

Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.

Rosie Thomas

To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Wallace Stevens

Another travel agent told me I could spend 7 nights in Hawaii...No days..just nights.

Rodney Dangerfield

Lavishness is not generosity.

Thomas Fuller

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

William Shakespeare

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

Mark Twain

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Germaine Greer

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Jonathan Swift