Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.

Fingerprints are like values--you leave them all over everything you do

Elvis Presley

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

Ann Beattie

My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!

Angela Kinsey

Language is the dress of thought.

Samuel Johnson

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.

Jennifer Lopez

If you live only for yourself you are always an immediate danger of being bored to death with the repetition of your own views and interests. No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellowmen.

W. Beran Wolfe

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Muhammad Ali

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

Nathaniel Branden

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

Jodi Picoult

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

Polly Toynbee

Past and to come seems best; things present worst

William Shakespeare

As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t

Stephen King