Kevin Bacon

"The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously."

William H. Sheldon

"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation."

E. M. Forster

"But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable."

John Keats

"Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance."

Thomas a Kempis

"First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others."

Stuart's Law of Retroaction

"It is easier to get forgiveness than permission."

Eddie Rickenbacker

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."

Mark Twain

"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."

Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran

"Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

Peter McWilliams

"Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed."

Andy Rooney

"Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head."

Real Live Preacher

"You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone."

Cynthia Ozick

"I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips."

Jay Leno

"Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances."

Harold Bloom

"We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own."

W. S. Gilbert

"If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance."

Victoria Holt

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

Charles Kingsley

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

Cato the Elder

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."

Jane Austen

"I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of."

Charles Dickens

"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

Ellen Glasgow

"Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty."

Will Rogers

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

Joel Spolsky

"An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it."