I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

That man is great, and he alone,Who serves a greatness not his own,For neither praise nor pelf:Content to know and be unknown:Whole in himself.

Edward George BulwerLytton, Owen

To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Wallace Stevens

To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.

George Washington, in a letter t

The sexy don't get wrinkles, they add love lines like a tree adds rings. So climb on them for the view.

Bauvard

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Plato

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The most pleasant and alluring curve on a woman is the smile

Treasure Stitches

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

E. B. White

Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

John Wooden

Gossip is nature's telephone.

Sholom Aleichem