The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

To walk because it is good for you warps the sould, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for hire or because he think it his duty.

Hilaire Belloc, The Footpath Way

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

Gavin DeGraw

We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

Aldous Huxley

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

Amy Sedaris

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Doris Day

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

Robert Mondavi

I'm a history nut.

Billy Joel

Boot-faced cats aren't born but made, often because they've tried to outstare or occasionally rape a speeding car and have been repaired by a vet who just pulled all the bits together and stuck the stitches in where there was room.

Terry Pratchett

I just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern day issues.

Jodi Picoult

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

Ben Affleck

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

Marco Rubio