I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

Henry David Thoreau

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

Jessica Simpson

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

Willie Nelson

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

Jon Fishman

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Henry Rollins

You feel that nothing you have learned has put down roots, that while you're capable of entering the magical universe, you cannot remain submerged in it. You feel that all of this may be nothing but a fantasy dreamed up by people to fend off their fear of death.

Paulo Coelho

But, you know, you can't be a star at home.

Jim Carrey

How red the rose that is the soldier

Wallace Stevens

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

Terry Pratchett

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

G. K. Chesterton

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Ursula K. Le Guin

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

Denzel Washington