Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful and simple. Penny liked uncomplicated beauty.

We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

Jeffrey Kluger

Yes, you must have the courage of being free.

Jose Carreras

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

Oskar Werner

Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool.

William Shakespeare

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Henry Cardinal Newman

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Samuel Butler, Samuel Butler, 19

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected.

Samuel Johnson

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

Valentino Rossi

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Edgar Allan Poe

I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and transformed her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

Jess C. Scott

You can do more good by being good than any other way.

John Wooden

Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Chinese Proverb