There are many good inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasing: for their sake, the earth is to be loved. And there is such a variety of well-invented things that the earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.

Sally Schneider

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion.

Victor Hugo

I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.

Celine Dion

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Ezra Pound

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

Denis Waitley

Beauty doesn't have to be anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto ?

Douglas Adams

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

Gustave Flaubert

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

Richard M. Nixon

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

Vinoba Bhave

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Anton Chekhov

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Denis Waitley