Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

Marilyn vos Savant

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art, the practice of surgery a plumber s.

Martin H. Fisher

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Helen Keller

I am nobody, even if I say I am this or that.

Santosh Kalwar

Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad

William Shakespeare

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

Albert Ellis

Every really able man, in whatever direction he work, - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

Jean Cocteau

For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away

William Shakespeare

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Robert Burns

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)

Jean-Yves Leloup

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt