We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

William Ellery Channing

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Dalai Lama

Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

Henrik Ibsen

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

John Adams, attributed said duri

In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.

Debbie Macomber

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

King Abdullah II

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

JeanPierre Melville

Penn State is a leader in food science.

Don Sherwood

He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.

Graham Greene

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

Rudolph Valentino