I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic, books of all kinds reflecting every transient stage of my parents' interest, books readable and unreadable, books suitable for a child and books most emphatically not. Nothing was forbidden me. In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.

Scott McClellan

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

Gene Simmons

I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.

Anon., Unattributed Author, Spec

One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.

Leo Tolstoy

The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.

Mark Spitz

Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

Source Unknown

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

Benjamin Franklin

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

Bertrand Russell

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

Johnny Depp

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.

Michael Jackson

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Edward Abbey