I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.

Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Steve Leonard

I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.

Chris Christie

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

Jane Birkin

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Mark Twain

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

Wynton Marsalis

When by the Ruins oft I past My sorrowing eyes aside did castAnd here and there the places spyWhere oft I sate and long did lie.Here stood that Trunk, and there that chest,There lay that store I counted best,My pleasant things in ashes lieAnd them behold no more shall I.Under the roof no guest shall sit,Nor at thy Table eat a bit.No pleasant talk shall 'ere be toldNor things recounted done of old.No Candle 'ere shall shine in Thee,Nor bridegroom's voice ere heard shall bee.In silence ever shalt thou lie.

Anne Dudley Bradstreet, Verses u

We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

Zach Galifianakis

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

John Edward Masefield

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

John Searle

What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?' 'Because they can't help it, miss,' replied the girl; 'the reason's plain.' (If Miss Squeers were the reason, it was very plain.)

Charles Dickens

That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.

Kathryn Stockett

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

Charles Stanley