Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

He said that he felt like the boy that stumped his toe,it hurt too bad to laugh, and he was too big to cry.

Abraham Lincoln

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

Michael Sheen

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Franz Kafka

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

Henry Ward Beecher

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

George H. W. Bush

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

Margaret Cho

Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.

Shirley Henderson

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

George Eliot

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Brooks Atkinson

In isolated or country places no man's life is safe.

John White Geary

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.

American Indian Proverb

The birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

Christina Rossetti