Kung matatakot kang harapin ang totoo at sabihin ang talagang nararamdaman mo dahil baka masaktan ka, isa lang ibig sabihin noon: ipinagkait mo na sa sarili mo ang pagiging masaya at kinarir mo ang magpakatanga.

Doing a little work around the house. I put fake brick wallpaper over a real brick wall, just so I'd be the only one who knew. People come over and I'm gonna say, Go ahead, touch it...it feels real.

Steven Wright

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage;...true success follows every right step.

Orison Swett Marden

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

Colin Hay

I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.

Helen Hunt

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

Michael Jordan

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Gaston Bachelard

Biography is a higher gossip.

Robert Winder

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

Erich Fromm

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

Steven Wright

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?

Sydney Harris

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

Edith Wharton