Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

Levon Helm

The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

Yoko Ono

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.

Aldous Huxley, Henry Wimbush, in

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

Shepard Smith

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

Henry David Thoreau

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Ingmar Bergman

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Thomas C. Haliburton

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Walter Savage Landor

The thrill of falling in love is often the thrill of being loved; the thrill of marriage is the thrill of loving someone for the rest of your life. Each day - and year - that passes is a triumph of this act of loving.

Susan Waggoner

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

Claudette Colbert

Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

Calvin Coolidge

Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.

Christina Perri