It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

James Allen

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

Kristen Stewart

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Rufus M. Jones

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

Eddie Vedder

The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.

Alice Meynell

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

Giada De Laurentiis

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.

Francis Bacon

The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.

Taylor Lautner

The basic fear with love is that love is larger than ourselves.

Swami Dhyan Giten

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Amy Winehouse