Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of te chest beneath that makes them seem so.

C.S. Lewis

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Vincent Van Gogh

I knew a girl that was so ugly that... She uses a septic tank for a toilet.

Rodney Dangerfield

We are indeeed being led to a pit, as it was written

James Dye

Love is our home

house of romance

Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.

John Wooden

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?

Dick Wolf

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

David Brinkley

If a woman writes about family and about the connections between people and what it means to be alive in this day and time, it's called women's fiction. And if a man does it, it's nominated for a National Book Award. What - you can't have a heart and a penis? That doesn't make sense.

Jodi Picoult

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

Ghose Aurobindo

All the things I love is what my business is all about.

Martha Stewart

If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged

Terry Pratchett