I love you, A bushel and a peck, A bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Hug around the neck and a barrel and a heap, Barrel and a heap and I'm talking in my sleep.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Plato

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Joseph Addison

He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.

George M. Adams

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing.

Raymond Radiguet

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

Hayden Panettiere

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

Nicole Kidman

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.

Kurt Vonnegut

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

John Dewey

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Terry Pratchett

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Marilyn Monroe