Fairest Isle, all isles excelling, Seat of pleasures, and of loves; Venus here will choose her dwelling, And forsake her Cyprian groves.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Alexander McCall Smith

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Chuck Norris

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

Allen Klein

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

Paulo Coelho

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

Erich von Stroheim

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

Blaise Pascal

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Caroline Kennedy

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

Charles Dickens

Being in love is not cool!

Alice Englert

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Authentic Love - When you truly love another human being, you extend to them the dignity of risk. Love them without fear and embrace them without restrictions. Accept them without wanting them to change to your ideas of their person-hood. Watch them evolve and grow into the realization of their own potential. There comes a time when you recognize they need to journey on without you. Love them enough to let them go. Bless them and release them.

Julie Hardesty

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

Margaret J. Wheatley