A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.

Padma Lakshmi

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

John Ruskin

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both; and I am sure it promotes their happin

Thomas Jefferson

Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history.

Aristotle

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

Benjamin Franklin

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of numbers.

Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medic

When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.

George Eliot

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

Thomas Fuller

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Bertrand Russell

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Agnes Macphail