It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

Ambrose Bierce

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

Mitt Romney

Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.

Carrie Vaughn

We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.

Calamity Jane

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Philip Roth

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

Bertrand Russell

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

Andre Maurois

I want to be a mom who listens.

Tori Spelling

I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.

Paula Poundstone

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

William Lyon Phelps

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard P. Feynman

You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

George Bernard Shaw