When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

You’re too focused. Too high-strung. Too…” Eros trails off as he continues to look into Levi’s blue eyes. “Too caught up with being in love.

I don’t think I can ever go back to cocoa!

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you

The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being

When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.

Through it all nobody gets me like you do.

Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

Where the world is going and what technology is leading us to in terms of the evolution of humanity is an incredibly valuable thing to understand.