There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.

Joan Cusack

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Jo Coudert

But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering

Cassandra Clare

Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.

Shania Twain

He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.

Mark Twain

Although it takes place in Gotham City and fundamentally it is a movie about Batman, Chris wanted us to play everything for truth. The actors he chose for this movie are into realism.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.

Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.

Piper Perabo

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

Diane Ackerman, A Natural Histor

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Charles A. Garfield

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

Tom Cruise

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

Janine Turner