Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

Megan Whalen Turner

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

Bobby Darin

People go to car races to watch the crashes.

Johnny Knoxville

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.

Harry Browne

Tell no man anything, for no man listensYet hold thy lips ready to speak.

Carl Sandburg

There is no try. There is only do.

John Green

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Emma Goldman

Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy sense of duty. Mundane, because they were nothing unique on the suburban streets; ethereal because their attention was ever somewhere else. Whatever you said was trivial. And they had that preciousness which they imposed wherever they went, compelling attention, constantly reminding you that they carried the future inside, its contours already drawn, but veiled, private, an inner secret.

Ruth Morgan

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

Oscar Wilde

The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.

Bill Bowerman

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer