We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think I don't need or want anything to change that.

Jordin Sparks

Thrown like a star in my vast sleep I open my eyes to take a peep To find that I was by the sea Gazing with tranquillity. 'Twas then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man Came singing songs of love...

Donovan

I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.

Giada De Laurentiis

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig van Beethoven

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Irving Layton

One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.

Terry Pratchett

Her fragrance blew him off and his body followed steps he had never learnt in his life.

Faraaz Kazi

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

Christopher Hitchens

In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.

Plato

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

Martina McBride

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

Donny Osmond

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb