When I get married, it'll be no secret.

They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.

Robert Burton

I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.

Alonzo Mourning

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

Helen Dunmore

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Thomas Tusser

My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

David Giuntoli

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

Arnold Rothstein

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Katherine Graham

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent Van Gogh

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

Joan Rivers

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

Neil Gaiman

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Al Boliska

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

Elizabeth Goudge