From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Ray Bradbury

One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.

Nick Clegg

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law.

Sutrakritanga

Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.

Karl Menninger

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

Tony Hancock

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

Gail Simmons

There's a difference between having the faith to believe and having the faith to receive.

Steve Maraboli

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Elias Canetti

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

Stephen King

He was with me, beside me, inside me, and I did not care that my children were asleep, alone at home, or that the neighbors might come to know. He burned the fear out of me until all was left was desire.

Ru Freeman

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

De Witt Clinton

We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.

Ron Ben-Israel