I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.

Chris Evans

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

G. K. Chesterton

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Ann Landers

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Ernest Gaines

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine De SaintExupery, The Lit

You must see first before you can believe.

Raymond Holliwell

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

H. L. Mencken

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

Carl Bernstein, In Guardian, (Lo

I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

Sean Paul

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

Bertrand Russell

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson