I love a girl with a sense of humor. Someone who can make me laugh and that I can get along with and talk with and who is just sweet overall, inside and out.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Sally Kempton

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.(Gore Vidal writing about the critic Edmund Wilson)

Gore Vidal, New York Review of B

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Marcus Aurelius

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

Oriana Fallaci

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

David Seabury

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

Horace

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Red Skelton

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

George Bernard Shaw

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

Samuel Smiles

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Josh Billings

My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.

Carson Daly

If my real life was half as exciting as what is reported, I would be thrilled.

Gabrielle Union