An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

Music is really something that makes people whole.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Jean Rostand

The human spirit sublimatesthe impulses it thwarts:a healthy sex life mitigatesthe lust for other sports.

Piet Hein

Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you.

Jodi Picoult

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Julia Child

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

Condoleezza Rice

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

Robert Reich

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Marianne Williamson

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

John Cory

For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

Elizabeth Kostova

Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.

Jeremy Renner