Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.

Salman Rushdie

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Ray Bradbury

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

Adrian Tan

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

Roy E. Disney

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Robert Half

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle, but if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Marilyn Monroe

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Errol Flynn

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

William Morris

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.

Yeardley Smith

I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!

Betty White

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

Katherine Heigl

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

Robert Penn Warren