I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

William Shakespeare

I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.

Eric Cantona

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

Tom DeLay

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

Stanislaw Lec, Unkempt Thoughts,

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Source Unknown

O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

William Shakespeare

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

Edward Everett Hale

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

Vernon A. Walters

If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

Plato

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Samuel Johnson

If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

Shaun White

As I squatted on the grass at the edge of the woods, the pee felt hot between my legs. I watched in puddle in the dirt, the smell of it rising into the night. There was no difference between my piss and June's. That's what i thought when I looked at the dark circle on the ground. Piss is Piss.

Sue Monk Kidd