But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Robert Collier

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Max Beerbohm

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Mortimer J. Adler

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

Bryant H. McGill

Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.

Michael Chabon

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

Pharrell Williams

A mindset of gratitude lifts the veil of bitterness and allows you to see beauty and possibility.

Steve Maraboli

Accio Brain!

J.K. Rowling

It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.

Henry Bolingbroke

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

Sydney Pollack

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Kahlil Gibran