I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.

George Bernard Shaw

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

Beverly Cleary

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Jodi Picoult

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.

Benjamin Franklin

A perfect dinner for me is being with people I really want to be with. It starts and stops with my company and my family.

Catherine Bach

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.

Clare Boothe Luce

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

Abraham Lincoln

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Jodi Picoult

In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

Henry Miller

Headlines twice the size of the events.

John Galsworthy