The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?

Nicholas Sparks

I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.

Padma Lakshmi

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

John Dewey

Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.

Julia Woodruff

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Margaret Cho

When did wishing someone a Merry Christmas become politically incorrect?

Suzanne Woods Fisher

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

Sir William Ramsay

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.

Chuck Palahniuk

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

Source Unknown

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Carl Jung

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

Albert Einstein