In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

David Hare

Why her cooking is so bad that the flies pitched in to fix the screen door. I leave dental floss in the kitchen and watch the roaches hang themselves.

Rodney Dangerfield

O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see

William Shakespeare

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.

Martin Freeman

I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.

Joyce Meyer

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

Thomas Moore

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Mark Twain

I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward.

Jim McKay

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Harold Geneen Ceo

I don't believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.

Paulo Coelho

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies