The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Tim O'Brien

I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

Bill Murray

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

LaoTzu

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

Harry Browne

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

Abraham Lincoln

What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau

I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.

Drew Barrymore

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

Steve Maraboli

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.

Andy Grove

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Vernon Howard

Truth -- An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

Ambrose Bierce

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Mikhail Gorbachev