You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Miss Mehi

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

Helen Rowland

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.

Julia Roberts

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Bob Dylan

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away...

Charles Dickens

The journey to a thousand stars is not too far a journey in the quest to have true love abiding in a pure heart.

C. JoyBell C.

Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing -- fortifying and bracing -- seemingly just as was wanted -- sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.

Jane Austen

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.

Aaron Sanchez

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

Source Unknown

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Greg Anderson

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

Jean Paul Richter

I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.

William James