I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

Tom Stoppard

My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

Mickey Gilley

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Ruth Rendell

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

Saul Alinsky

The innate power you possess to achieve your dreams is immeasurable.

Steve Maraboli

The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.

Albert Einstein

The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Christopher Morley

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

J.K. Rowling

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Earl Nightingale

In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.

John Kuypers

Love should last a lifetime. But not the lifetime of a giant tortoise. More like the lifespan of a gastrotrich.

Jarod Kintz