Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

Donna Tartt

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

Lauren Conrad

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

Stephen King

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Mark Twain

Failed experiments in ecumenism and social politics suggest that unity is not to be found in mass movements of like-minded people sharing common perspectives and policies. ... Experience suggests that unity embraces the multitude of our differences, that community is often far from cozy, and that conversion does not mean changing others to our point of view but perhaps just the opposite -- weaning each and every person and institution from the arrogant exclusivism that prevents genuine conversation. ... God comes to us, to rescue us not only from our enemies but also from our friends, not only from strangers but also from familiars, that we might see beyond these discriminating distinctions to a new way of relating.

Sam Portaro, A Companion to the

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

William Ellery Channing

I really don't care that I don't have what's current because whatever is at the moment, it will be infinitely better in a few months and even better months later.

William Fink

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

Roy L. Smith

Marriage is not a noun it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Barbara de Angelis

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Satchel Paige

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

Samuel Johnson

Oh Doris Lessing, my dear -- your Anna is wrong about orgasms. They are no proof of love -- any more than that other Anna's fall under the wheels of that Russian train was a proof of love. It's all female shenanigans, cultural mishegoss, conditioning, brainwashing, male mythologizing. What does a woman want? She wants what she has been told she ought to want. Anna Wulf wants orgasm, Anna Karenina, death. Orgasm is no proof of anything. Orgasm is proof of orgasm. Someday every woman will have orgasms -- like every family has color TV -- and we can all get on with the real business of life.

Erica Jong