Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

Virginia Woolf

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Eric Hoffer

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

Aldo Leopold

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When you have mastered fear then you have mastered all.

Stephen Richards

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Confucius

Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent.

Seth Rogen

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

Elbert Hubbard

...try to remember that dreams do come true, but they don't come easily.

Josephine Angelini

I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas Edison

Never mistake activity for achievement.

John Wooden

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

Henry David Thoreau