I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Albert Einstein

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

John Stuart Mill

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Jim Rohn

When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could weather it. Alex closed her eyes and expected the worst-but it wasn't a bad thing; it was just a different thing. A messier one, more complicated one. She hesitated, and then she kissed Patrick back, willing to concede that you might have to lose control before you could find what you'd been missing.

Jodi Picoult

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Wallace Stevens

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

Melissa Gilbert

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

Quentin is very organic there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

David Carradine

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

Abigail Van Buren

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

Stephen King

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi