Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.

I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.

Ina Garten

Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or highroad to the soul's destination.

Joseph Campbell

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Lydia M. Child

It's been a rough day. I got up this morning . . . put on a shirt and a button fell off. I picked up by briefcase and the handle came off. Now I'm afraid to go to the bathroom.

Rodney Dangerfield

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

In math, you're either right or you're wrong.

Katherine Johnson

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

Paulo Coelho

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

Irving Babbitt

Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.

Don Marquis

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

Khaled Hosseini

Time and space have no meaning, just as your conscious thoughts are meaningless.

Stephen Richards