We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

Source Unknown

Well, finally, once you become an orphan, you're an orphan till the day you die. I keep having the same dream. I'm seven years old and an orphan again. All alone, with no adults around to take care of me. It's evening, and the light is fading, and night is pressing in. It's always the same. In the dream I always go back to being seven years old. Software like that you can't exchange once it's contaminated.

Haruki Murakami

I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.

Jenna Bush

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Robert M. Pirsig

I listen to music constantly while writing.

Orson Scott Card

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.

Lee Trevino

The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

Fannie Flagg

The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

Joseph Addison

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

George Bernard Shaw

To be human is to be beautifully flawed.

Eric Wilson