In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it was cool to have a computer - because there was a time that was true. So that's where I developed my personality.

Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

William Bernbach

Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.

John Ralston Saul

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Lord Chesterfield, Letter to his

Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.

Simon Mainwaring

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

Sandra Cisneros

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

John Sterling

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

George Eliot

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

Joseph Joubert

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Allen Klein