"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?" ~ George Eliot
You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems. ~ Art Garfunkel, Rolling Stone, 10/16/03
One can only face in others what one can face in oneself. ~ James Baldwin
I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo. ~ Naomi Judd, County Confidential, 1999
While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. ~ Abigail Van Buren
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. ~ Dwight Eisenhower
The first handshake in life is the greatest of all: the clasp of an infant fist around a parent's finger. ~ Mark Beltaire
Everything comes to us from others. To be is to belong to someone. ~ John-Paul Sartre
It is hard to predict what I want in a partner. It's more about what the universe brings to me, and what I feel is right. ~ Tobey Maguire
No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Sometimes you only need to have a few words with a person to know you would like to have many more. ~ Roger Ebert