Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Aldous Huxley

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

Bryant H. McGill

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

Rebecca Romijn

You're biggest expense is the money you don't make.

Pante

My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run.

Allyson Felix

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

Michael Faraday

Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.

George Eliot

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Doug Coupland

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

Euripides

The worst behaved students turn out to be the most pious preachers.

Proverb

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.

Evander Holyfield

You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of is your dad. And how he thinks you're not pretty.

Teresa Lo