A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.

Jim Evans

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

Antoine De SaintExupery

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

Judd Nelson

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

Layne Staley

The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

Jodi Picoult

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regrettedmost of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

Nora Ephron

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Thomas Browne

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

John Adams

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

Erich Fromm

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Thomas Jefferson