I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Harold W. Dodds

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

Criss Jami

Often success goes hand-in-hand with the sum total of sexual activity in your life.

Stephen Richards

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost

Richard Bach

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Honore de Balzac

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If they take me away from you, fear not, I love you always. I love you with my heart.

Izicain

Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.

Louisa May Alcott

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Dan Quayle

The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer.

Edward R. Murrow

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

Janis Ian

Oh, it is sure as it is sad That any lad is every lad, And what's a girl, to dare implore Her dear be hers forevermore? Though he be tried and he be bold, And swearing death should he be cold, He'll run the path the others went.... But you, my sweet, are different.

Dorothy Parker, from Incurable