Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

Maurice Sendak

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Bertrand Russell

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

Edward F. Halifax

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Maya Angelou

A man committed suicide by overdosing on decongestant tablets.All they found was a pile of dust.

Steven Wright

We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.

Emmanuelle Beart

Physical courage is a great test.

Oriana Fallaci

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

Sandra Bullock

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Emma Goldman

You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Joyce Cary