Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.

We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you.

Jodi Picoult

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

Anderson Cooper

We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a challenge, with the global fame, to try to act like I put my pants on one leg at a time, when in fact I have Pippa Middleton help me put my pants on every morning. She's my lady-in-waiting as well.

Kathy Griffin

Once when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that was very bad. Love is for unlucky folk. Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.

Dorothy Parker, A Very Short Son

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.

John Quinton

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Zig Ziglar

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The eye is easily frightened.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is melancholy to reflect that Mankind has suffered more from ill-judged philanthropy than from calculated malice. The road to Hell is no less harrowing for being paved with good intentions.

Giles St. Aubyn, biography of Ki

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

George Orwell

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson