I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

I worked so hard for that first kissAnd a heart dont forget something like thatLike an old photographTime can make a feeling fadeBut the memory of a first loveNever fades away.

Tim McGraw

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Fulton J. Sheen

This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.

Jodi Picoult

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Ted Turner

I went to the Bach Choir concert and heard Mozart's Requiem. I did not rise warmly to it. Then I heard an extract from Parsifal which I disliked very much. If Bach wriggles, Wagner writhes...

Samuel Butler, The NoteBooks of

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

Laurie Anderson

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wod

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

Robert Smith

Always something new, seldom something good.

Proverb

It is easy to fly into a passion anybody can do that but to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.

Aristotle

The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone.

C.S. Lewis

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford