When I receive letters from girls that say, 'You give me confidence,' I think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' That's my goal: to let people know it's truly what's on the inside that counts.

Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life's problems.

Dan Castellaneta

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Plato

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Antonin Dvorak

The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it.

Frank Warren

Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.

Howard Dean

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Anne Lamott

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

A.E. Housman

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

George Eliot

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 -- 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Robert M. Pirsig

No more creepy online alter egos in the name of love.

Elizabeth Rudnick

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

Harold Bloom