I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Colin Firth

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Richard Dawkins

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

Eddie Van Halen

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Holbrook Jackson

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

Samuel Johnson

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.

Confucius

The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.

Les Brown

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

Willa Cather

Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.

Sloane Crosley

Courage: To step into a conversation with intention and without knowing how to get back out of it.

Dwight Frindt

Wisdom sits alone Topmost in Heaven.

Nathaniel Parker Willis