Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

Allen Tate

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Andre Gide

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Maya Angelou

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Fredrich

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

W. C. Fields

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

Terry Pratchett

We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we aren't around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten.

Tom Colicchio

I did the whole rock and roll thing that's coming up. I think you're going to enjoy that! 'Burt Rocks', it's called. I like that he's a dreamer I like how positive he is. There's a lot of things I think I can learn from Burt.

Garret Dillahunt

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker.

Ambrose Bierce

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Abraham Lincoln