Ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
The richest man is he who lives simply but has an abundance of love and kindness to give away.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...
I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.