Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down.

That which we call sin in others, is experiment for us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Andrew Carnegie

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Francis Bacon

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

William Shakespeare

Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

James Joyce, A Portrait of the A

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Who can direct when all pretend to know?

Oliver Goldsmith

From year to year, it is more obvious: the goal of medicine is not health but the further extension of the health system.

Gerhard Kocher

Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the world to be as simple as they are.

Tim Kreider

Beauty vanishes like a vapor, Preach the men of musty morals.

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spoff

Les idées sont le contraire de la pensée.

Albert Camus

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

E. Joseph Cossman