The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Doris Lessing

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.

John Cusack

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

George M. Humphrey

There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started.

E.M. Forster

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Edward George BulwerLytton

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

Maimonides

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Tom Hopkins

If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

John Green

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.

Steve Jobs

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Hans Hofmann

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

Peggy Noonan