Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.

I took a baby shower.

Steven Wright

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Amos Bronson Alcott

There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- poetry. All the rest is a lie --except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul.

Stephane Mallarme

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

Michael Novak

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

Henry David Thoreau

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

Andrew Greeley

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

Sinclair Lewis

Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.

Leon Panetta

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

Paul Auster

Your attitude determines your altitude.

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That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

Anita Shreve