What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B. F. Skinner

I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

Lev Grossman

And nothing is, but what is not.

William Shakespeare

When a man loves you, you can tell by the way he touches you. His hands that have been lifting heavy objects all day turn into sensitive hands that will never hurt you.

Jessica Bascom

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

Philip Wylie

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

William Shatner

The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.

Chloe Moretz

Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway.

Judith Viorst

A person who tries to find good outside himself, wither in this life or in the one to come, is making a mistake.

Leo Tolstoy

Force persuades a person to speak, but it cannot guarantee his honesty. Quite the reverse: it will extract confessions from innocents and lies from simple sinners...

Meredith Duran

From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy

Carolyn Marsden

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

Star Jones