I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Derek Walcott

Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.

Augusten Burroughs

I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

Florence Griffith Joyner

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Sid Taylor

You know what I want in a woman, Paul? What's that? A friend. A true friend; someone who knows me and loves me anyway. You know, like when I'm through putting my best foot forward, she's still there, still the same.

Don Miller

Life's too short for chess.

Henry J. Byron

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

Benjamin Franklin

When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

James Joyce

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

Wolfgang Puck

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Carolyn Wells

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Bill Vaughan