Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.

O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive you will be able to design a house together with your family a garden for your children places where you can work beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.

Christopher Alexander

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

Marcus V. Pollio

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

Shirley MacLaine

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C. S. Lewis

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Mark Twain

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.

Robert Cialdini

My Food Network shows, 'Emeril Live' and 'Essence of Emeril,' are not in production right now, but I wouldn't say that I'm necessarily leaving Food Network. I have a lot of television still in me. I enjoy teaching people, so it's just a matter of time before I do something new.

Emeril Lagasse

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

Joseph Stiglitz

This is your war now.' I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have?'Some war,' he said dismissively. 'What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Graze, with a predetermined winner.

John Green

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Oscar Wilde