Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

Joyce Maynard

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Wilt Chamberlain

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

Giada De Laurentiis

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke, Speech on Concilia

The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.

George Murray

Every great house is full of haughty servants.

Juvenal

I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.

Jordin Sparks

I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.

Larry Bird

Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them.

Deborah Harkness

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don Marquis

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Ernest Hemingway

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

Paul Hindemith