Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

My favorite show is America's Funniest Home Videos. People will get hit on the head and I feel bad cause I'm laughing my head off!

Corbin Bleu

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.

Lewis Thomas

An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.

Charlotte Bingham

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

Roland Barthes

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

Eliot Spitzer

While the egg yolks cooled, he directed the beaters at the egg whites, setting the mixer on high speed that sent small bubbles giggling to the side of the bowl, where a few became many until they were a white froth rising up and then lying down again in patters and ridges, leaving an intricate design like the ribs of a leaf in the wake of the beaters

Erica Bauermeister

In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Terry Pratchett

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

Laurence J. Peter

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

Thomas Keller

Courage, my friends 'tis not too late to build a better world.

Tommy Douglas

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to say: This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.

Thornton Wilder