A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'

A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.

Dean Acheson

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Stephen Fry

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Diane Sawyer

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

James Truslow Adams

The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love

Helen Shucman

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I would rather live my life than watch another person's life on T.V.

Source Unknown

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Ann Landers

Those who dance are thought mad by those who do not hear the music.

Anon.

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.

Oscar Wilde

You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. Accepting his Independent Spirit Award

Sean Penn

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Alfred North Whitehead