That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

Deborah Tannen

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

David Rockefeller

I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am.

Amy Sedaris

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.

Albert Einstein

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

Alexis de Tocqueville

One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

Virginia Woolf

The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.

Giada De Laurentiis

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

Jane Austen

El llanto es tan saludable como el sudor, y más poético. Hay que aplicarlo siempre que sea posible como la medicina antigua aplicaba la sangría.

Alejandro Casona

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Sir Winston Churchill

By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

John Dryden

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Barry White