Jane Smiley Quote

The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do with your attitude and how you treat people.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interes...

Maybe we're just falling stars, we once danced in the same skyline looking down at the world. And we've fallen like all others, from near and far, we've gathered together, but separated by time and sp...

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.