My friend Winnie is a procrastinator. He didn't get hisbirthmark until he was eight years old.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Madame Swetchine

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

Henri Bergson

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

Mary Wortley Montagu

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce, Ulysses

False friends are worse than bitter enemies.

Scottish Proverb

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Mason Cooley

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

Maurice Sendak

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Jean de la Bruyere

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

Danica McKellar

Kindness begins in the heart of a willing mind.

D. A. MC Bride

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Richard Deupree

Art is a conversation we are all invited to and are all worthy to participate in. Yes, great works can be intimidating, but no one else in the world has what you have -- your voice, your eyes, your feeling and perspective. Other people have written great books, but no one else will ever write YOUR book. It's worth writing. That is the belief that carries me through.

Rachel Hartman