Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

Kurt Vonnegut

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Margaret Atwood

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

Charles Rangel

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

Koichi Tanaka

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

Bill Owens

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.

Taylor Swift

Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. And what are you reading, Miss -- -? Oh! it is only a novel! replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Jane Austen

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for, however absurd it may be thought to boast an honour by an act which shows that it was conferred without merit, yet most men seem rather inclined to confess the want of virtue than of importance.

Samuel Johnson

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.

Alice Englert

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

Annie Lennox

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Bill Clinton

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri Frederic Amiel