Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens

You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick enough for this family.

Jodi Picoult

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Sir Walter Raleigh

One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things.

Mark Goddard

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Stephen Sondheim

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Maya Angelou

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Mark Twain

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Wallace Stegner, The Spectator B

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

Itzhak Perlman

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain

William Shakespeare