Mental Note #50: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, even though it most desperately wants to. - Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman

There's a cover for every pot, but I've never seen so many mismatched pots and covers in all my life. - Ellen Wasserfeldman, from Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman by Alisa Dana Steinberg

Remember where you are and adjust yourself accordingly, not vice-versa ... otherwise, you might be toast.

You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that, you shouldn’t have to pretend to be anything around me. Friends should be real with each other

If you're gonna be a failure at least be one at something you enjoy.

The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.

Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the thinking mind.

Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know.

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home