My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

By all means use some time to be alone.

Edward Young

I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau

So what if you're plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That's easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious.

Donna Lynn Hope

Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.

Ayelet Waldman

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.

Yiddish Proverb

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Emily Dickinson

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

David Brainerd

Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson,Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green.Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealingWith the growths of summer, I never yet have seen.

William Cullen Bryant

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Virginia Woolf

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

Orson Pratt

Gratitude is the doorman's payment.

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I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.

Steve Jobs