I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

Wynton Marsalis

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

Sienna Miller

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

Thomas Fuller

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

Wayne W Dyer

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

Katherine Heigl

In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.

Beverley Mitchell

In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.

Plato

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

Mark Twain

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

Jack Kerouac

If you don't believe in your product, of if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work.

Jay Levinson

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Karl Marx