Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men.

Theodor Reik

When mice run, cats give chase.

Rachel Vincent

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Henry David Thoreau

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Nancy Astor

Ennobling this dull pomp, the life of kings, By contemplation of diviner things.

Matthew Arnold

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.

Ken Blanchard

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

James S. Coleman

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

George Orwell

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Marguerite Gardiner

...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Miguel de Cervantes

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

Star Jones