We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Manolo Blahnik

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Candice Bergen

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

Stephen Fry

When we are old and these rejoicing veins Are frosty channels to a muted stream,And out of all our burning there remainsNo feeblest spark to fire us, even in dream,This be our solace: that it was not saidWhen we were young and warm and in our prime,Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead,Sleeping away the unreturning time.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, When We

Don't judge someone's choices without first knowing their reason.

Robert Tew

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

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Sir Winston Churchill

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

Aaron Carter

It is a heretic that makes the fire, not she which burns in it

William Shakespeare

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

Dave Parnas