Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

James Taylor

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

Daniel Berrigan

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Oliver Goldsmith

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

Mindy Kaling

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

Grenville Kleiser

Look to the Great Eternal Cause And not to any man, for light. Look in; and learn the wrong, and right, From your own soul's unwritten laws. And when you question, or demur, Let Love be your Interpreter.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Mel Brooks

Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.

Liza Minnelli

I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.

Colin Kaepernick

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Karl Lagerfeld

The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.

Fareed Zakaria

Intelligence is a moral category.

Theodor Adorno