The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.

I had to stop driving my car for a while...the tires got dizzy.

Steven Wright

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

Tony Bennett

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Marcus Aurelius

The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps

Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali,

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

George Saunders

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

Thomas Robert Malthus

I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God.

Charles Dickens

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

Howard Gardner

When you're feeling terrific, notify your face.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.

Samuel Johnson

Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

Paula Danziger

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

Karen Thompson Walker