My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

Stephen Richards

A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.

Bernard Berenson

To love is to act.

Victor Hugo

There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule.

Samuel Butler

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Dee Dee Myers

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music is what our feelings sound like.

Vera Farmiga

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wr

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Bernard Baruch

yeah this could actually be a dope rap beat

Leslie Hochsztein

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

LaToya Jackson

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

Thomas Jefferson