There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva

--Josh Groban

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

"Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!"

----From On Golden Pond

And it's you and me in the summertime.
We'll be hand in hand down in the park.
With a squeeze and a sigh and that twinkle in your eye
And all the sunshine banishes the dark.
And it's you I need in the summertime,
As I turn my white skin red
Two peas from the same pod, yes we are
Or haveI read too much fiction?
Is this how it happens?
How does it happen?
Is this how it happens?
Now, right now.

------The Sundays

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,

it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Music makes one feel so romantic -

at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

---Oscar Wilde

(with whom I would be in love, were he not both gay and dead)

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on.

It is never any use to oneself.

The secret of life

is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived

Anyone who lives within their means

suffers from a lack of imagination.

Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies;

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

One's real life

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Love between incompatible people...

Love between incompatible people is cute only in the movies.

-----------Jeanne Marie Laskas

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

--------William Shakespeare

Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

When love is not madness, it is not love.

Fairy tales do not teach children that dragons exist.

Fairy tales do not teach children that dragons exist. They already know they do. Fairy tales teach children that dragons can be killed.

-------------- G.K. Chesterton

It isn't Possible to Love and Part.

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

----------------E.M. Forester

I Kinda Would Not Mind This on My Tombstone

She had the manners of an ambassador and the morals of a pirate. --------------- Celeste Holm
(About the 'fictional' Eve Harrington)

Snow and adolescence ...

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

------------------Earl Wilson

Nature has no mercy at all.

Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.

----------Maya Angelou

Sorrows gather around great souls...

Sorrows gather around great souls,as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

-----------Jean Paul

When choosing between two evils,

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

---Mae West

The Only Thing That Makes Life Possible ...

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty, not knowing what comes next.

--Ursula LeGuin