I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

We do not suffer by accident.

Jane Austen

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

Thom Yorke

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

William Shakespeare

With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you.

Michael J. Cohen

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.

Kiana Tom

It is an obscene comparison - you know I am not sure I like it - but you know there was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck, he said. Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions......It starts with a feeling of patriotism within oneself. It carries through with a certain knowledge that the country as a whole - and for all the right reasons - felt and continues to feel this surge of patriotism within themselves. And one finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but you know what? This is not exactly the right time to ask it.'

Dan Rather, admitting, that patr

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.

Pandora Poikilos

the doer is merely a fiction added to the deed the deed is everything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.

Gerald W. Johnson

One of the most important virtues in social life, a virtue that is becoming less common by the day, is discretion.

Adolf Freiherr Knigge

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

Michael Pollan

Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.

Ann Brashares