It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Merry Browne

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave

John Keats, letter from Joseph S

Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

Carl Jung

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

Tennessee Williams

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

Levon Helm

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

Grazia Deledda

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.

Lorna Luft

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

John Lennon

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Dwight D Eisenhower

I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.

Calista Flockhart

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

English Proverb