Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

The world was so unbearably pretty, and it continued being so all the way down the mountain to school. I felt slightly high because of the beauty, and the inside of my head tickled. I wondered if this is how artists go through life, with all of its sensations tickling their craniums like a peacock feather..

Douglas Coupland

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

Simone Weil

Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.

Lisa Kleypas

I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.

Valerie Bertinelli

If you judge, investigate.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

The ultimate umpire of all things in life is -- fact.

Agnes C. Laut

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

Ann Landers

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Source Unknown

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wealth maketh many friends. Proverbs 19:4

Bible

I like being at home and cooking.

Shania Twain

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

Leo Buscaglia