You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

The bird let loose in Eastern skies,Returning fondly home,Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor fliesWhere idle warblers roam;But high she shoots through air and light,Above all low delay,Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,Nor shadow dims her way.

Thomas Moore, Oh That I had Wing

Hell, he said. Just when it was getting interesting, too. And he leaped into the water after his friend.

Cassandra Clare

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Charles Lamb

Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension - only the vapid are impressed by those who try to squeeze as many books as possible into each passing month as if shoving one more oiled hot dog down the gullet in a food eating contest to prove accumulation superiority.

Wil Zeus

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Paul Hawken

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Dwayne Johnson

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Luis Barragan

I love the fact we're still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really, so for me the chance to get on stage at Wembley 30 years after we started is amazing.

Joe Elliott

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

Sir Walter Scott

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Shirley Chisholm

Words are made of silver, but silence is made of gold.

Portuguese Proverb

You cannot run at full throttle when applying your mindset to all of the different things running through your head. Focusing is the key to manifesting your desires.

Stephen Richards