Philip Yancey
Related In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasu... STEVE LEVEEN MADAME DE LAMBERT MADAME DE LAMBERT BILLY COLLINS JEREMY TAYLOR COVENTRY PATMORE ARISTIPPUS HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY TRYON EDWARDS Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread. They may satisfy appetite for the moment, bu... TYRON EDWARDS UNKNOWN ALAN W. WATTS CHARLES BUKOWSKI The fools enjoy their pleasures; they must also endure all their pains. From pleasures, arise diseas... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE COVENTRY PATMORE VLADIMIR NABOKOV I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES BHAGAVAD GITA Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives. JOHN ZIMMERMAN Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON The center of all my enjoyments is the home wherein are my wife and children, and I have no wish to ... LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR II W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, JOHN HOWARD PAYNE MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the
consequence, and pains to be cov... MICHEL EYQUEM ANONYMOUS TOAST May your wants be few and your pleasures many. MARTY RUBIN MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE ARISTIPPUS People argue themselves out of their pleasures JUDE MORGAN DEYTH BANGER MICHAEL JOSEPHSON SENECA BLAISE PASCAL If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... GEORGE ELIOT GEORGE ELIOT EUSTACE BUDGELL STENDHAL STENDHAL BERTRAND RUSSELL SEI SHōNAGON DALAI LAMA XIV While the four-day work week is not yet universal, most citizens enjoy the pleasures of added three-... MICHAEL FROME Awareness is the fundamental discipline that affects us in everything that we do. If we can perfect ... ANIL GUPTA EVELYN UNDERHILL SEI SHōNAGON People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... JOHN MILTON CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU THOMAS LIGOTTI HAROLD BLOOM LEIGH HUNT CHANAKYA JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU ALEXANDRA STODDARD For me, one of the pleasures of cats' company is their devotion to bodily comfort COMPTON MACKENZIE SR. For me, one of the pleasures of cats' company is their devotion to bodily comfort COMPTON MACKENZIE, SR. TONI MORRISON Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it. KAROLINA KURKOVA The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest ple... RICHARD 'GRIMESY' GRIMES AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB HENRY DAVID THOREAU HENRY DAVID THOREAU SIR WALTER SCOTT CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS LORD CHESTERFIELD ALBERT CAMUS ARUNDHATI ROY HENRY DAVID THOREAU TED DEKKER There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing. PROVERB FRENCH PROVERB C.S. LEWIS UNKNOWN That is not where we need to be, ... We're looking at other ways to satisfy their financial concerns... MARK MCCLAIN BERTRAND RUSSELL WILLIAM COWPER These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joi... DOUGLAS SIRK JOHN PIPER MARK TWAIN Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are cal... JOHN H. AUGHEY PAUL BLOOM QUINTILIAN CHARLES CALEB COLTON Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.TEGAN QUIN What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer! RICK YANCEY MITCH ALBOM HAROLD BLOOM The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS ABRAHAM COWLEY DOROTHY PARKER Memories are pleasures of the past. LORRIN L. LEE LORD BYRON LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON ELIZABETH KOSTOVA
More Philip Yancey
PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY PHILIP YANCEY You can love the good in us and hate the bad but the bad is in us too. Without it we wouldn't be us. RICK YANCEY I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to ... RICK YANCEY What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vos... RICK YANCEY You’re not the only one,” he says through gritted teeth. “My twelve-year-old sister died in my... RICK YANCEY You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice?... RICK YANCEY Wir sind hier, und dann sind wir wieder weg, und es geht nich darum, wie viel Zeit wir hier haben, s... RICK YANCEY Wie befreit man die Erde von den Menschen? Indem man die Menschen von ihrer Menschlichkeit befreit. RICK YANCEY Man kann jemanden nur dann als verrückt bezeichnen, wenn es jemand anderen gibt, der normal ist. Wi... RICK YANCEY His heart, the war.RICK YANCEY Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you. RICK YANCEY I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking a... RICK YANCEY Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon ... RICK YANCEY For a being more advanced than I am, he sure has a hard time answering a simple question RICK YANCEY I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I wou... RICK YANCEY Is this how humanity waves good-bye?RICK YANCEY Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of commun... RICK YANCEY How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. RICK YANCEY You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your li... RICK YANCEY And, for one– ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and... RICK YANCEY But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the s... RICK YANCEY And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield. RICK YANCEY He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background... RICK YANCEY We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel bra... RICK YANCEY They were afraid the longer we pretended to be human, the more human we would become.”RICK YANCEY My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After tha... RICK YANCEY Some things down to the smallest of things, are worth the sum of all things RICK YANCEY Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forge... RICK YANCEY Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end ... RICK YANCEY Seems like (when) Ian (Viola) gets out of that first inning - he's been pitching real well. WAYNE YANCEY Like many businesses in the community, the Home Depot maintains a policy of non-solicitation at its ... YANCEY CASEY There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; an... RICK YANCEY He looked at me and smiled reassuringly and said, "Everything is going to be okay," because that's w... RICK YANCEY When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought ... RICK YANCEY The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speec... RICK YANCEY If you leave without me, I’ll just follow you. You can’t stop me, Cassie. How are you going to s... RICK YANCEY It's the lady, then," he murmured. RICK YANCEY Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the ... RICK YANCEY And red is not the color of apples or roses or the dresses that pretty girls wear in the summertime.... RICK YANCEY Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any ot... RICK YANCEY You could see the smile coming a year before it arrived. RICK YANCEY Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall... RICK YANCEY Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" RICK YANCEY You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot... RICK YANCEY But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie d... RICK YANCEY He knew the truth. Yes, my dear child, he would undoubtedly tell a terrified toddler tremulou... RICK YANCEY As long as you draw breath anywhere -here or ten thousands miles from here- I will love you. I can't... RICK YANCEY I am drowning in an infinite sea. RICK YANCEY But I don’t panic. I don’t bolt like a frightened gazelle. I am more than the sum of my fear. It... RICK YANCEY We're still a strong presence in the community and a great source for not only do-it-yourself needs ... YANCEY CASEY Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky. RICK YANCEY God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called. RICK YANCEY We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with... RICK YANCEY It wasn't a good fake smile. You could always tell when she was faking, because she didn't look frie... RICK YANCEY And John Kearns whispered into my ear: "Do you see it now? *You* are the nest. *You* are the hatchli... RICK YANCEY One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own ch... RICK YANCEY Alfred," Merryweather said. "OIPEP is the only organization of its kind in the world, with practical... RICK YANCEY I’m about to pee myself with relief that we’re all alive, but mostly because he is.RICK YANCEY Cassie?”RICK YANCEY Zombie!” Sammy calls. “I knew it was you.”RICK YANCEY His body is pressed against my back, his arm is wrapped protectively around my waist, his breath a d... RICK YANCEY You’re the mayfly,' he murmurs.RICK YANCEY Sullivan had her Crucifix Soldier and now I have mine. No. I am the soldier. Teacup is the cross. RICK YANCEY I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up wi... RICK YANCEY There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderf... RICK YANCEY She's one of those girls that when she's on, you better watch out. She doesn't have much of a consci... YANCEY LITTLE The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father’s study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern k... RICK YANCEY He didn’t like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eye... RICK YANCEY Do you believe in God, Evan?”RICK YANCEY His other hand finds my cheek, and he wipes away my tears with his thumb. The chocolate scent overwh... RICK YANCEY That's it," he said bitterly. "Cry, Cassie. Cry for her. Cry for all the children. They can't hear y... RICK YANCEY I left them there for the flies and the birds and the sun and the wind. In the silence outside the T... RICK YANCEY He stiffened and said with great dignity, "I am a natural scientist. We are accustomed to dealing wi... RICK YANCEY Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong. RICK YANCEY I'd walk right up to him and blow his brains out. RICK YANCEY Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I... RICK YANCEY Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it. RICK YANCEY I should have asked, I guess,” he says. “I shouldn’t have assumed.”RICK YANCEY A moment comes in war when the last lines must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold a f... RICK YANCEY The girl sleeping and the finisher, willing himself to finish her. RICK YANCEY I’ll do whatever you say, Cassie,” he says helplessly. His eyes shine brighter than the stars ov... RICK YANCEY Dislodged cobwebs and dust swirled around them. The ceiling was holding for now. He doubted it could... RICK YANCEY Thinking about the bacon- the potential of bacon- gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't. RICK YANCEY Aren’t you coming with us?”RICK YANCEY Let’s establish a code for when you want to go all creeper on me. One knock means you’d like to ... RICK YANCEY He knocks once against the side. I don’t get it at first, and then I laugh. Let’s estab... RICK YANCEY He lays me on the bed. I say, right before he kisses me again, “If you kiss me again, I’m going ... RICK YANCEY I had it all wrong. Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to l... RICK YANCEY If your job is to kill us, why didn’t you kill me?” I ask.RICK YANCEY I think that's the way it is. When you love someone. Something happens to them, and it's a punch in ... RICK YANCEY And far more dangerous than greed or lust or envy or any of those things—or anything—was love. RICK YANCEY Evan is the little branch growing out of the cliff that she clings to, and the fact that he's gone m... RICK YANCEY When I wake up the next morning, there's a Hershey's Kiss sitting on the table beside me. RICK YANCEY It's an either/or world now. RICK YANCEY In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME. RICK YANCEY After another half second, he's locked me in a bear hug, crushing me into his chest and lifting my f... RICK YANCEY I took one look at it and demanded that he name three things he isn't good at.RICK YANCEY I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear fr... RICK YANCEY I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insign... RICK YANCEY I didn't save you," he whispers, lips tickling my eyelashes. "You saved me. RICK YANCEY What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer! RICK YANCEY I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real... RICK YANCEY Because we will die, but at least we will die unbroken. RICK YANCEY There's an old saying about the truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the ... RICK YANCEY I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for t... RICK YANCEY You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If eve... RICK YANCEY That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear. RICK YANCEY I had it all wrong," he says. "Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find som... RICK YANCEY Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit. RICK YANCEY My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book... RICK YANCEY Everything's going to be okay', because that's what I wanted him to say and it's what he wanted to s... RICK YANCEY When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cas... RICK YANCEY They made a major mistake," he blurted out, "the dumb bastards, when they didn't start by killing yo... RICK YANCEY Beyond their immaculate design, the reason sharks rule the ocean is their complete indifference to e... RICK YANCEY To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is... RICK YANCEY Some things you don't have to promise. You just do. RICK YANCEY When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails. RICK YANCEY Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral th... RICK YANCEY No one will remember us, out footprints erased, our legacies wiped out, our children and their child... RICK YANCEY I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to g... RICK YANCEY We have a lot of distractions that come with homecoming week. Sylacauga got their first win the othe... FRED YANCEY We knew we had to contain Thompson's quarterback. They gave us a great effort defensively. FRED YANCEY This was a big win for us. I thought our kids did a great job playing wire-to-wire and working their... FRED YANCEY A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear... RICK YANCEY I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We hav... RICK YANCEY People die. Love endures. RICK YANCEY And I open to him, a flower to the rain. RICK YANCEY You know how we tell the good guys from the bad guys? The bad guys shoot at us."RICK YANCEY I want to learn from them. I want to do what I can to make a difference. JANAY YANCEY I think that will be amazing. It's always been a dream of mine to play big time volleyball. JANAY YANCEY I love the fact that they have a new coach. We just clicked automatically. (Coach Stubbs) was a frie... JANAY YANCEY It's great. I set a goal for myself and I reached it. Now I've got to set a new one and keep on goin... JANAY YANCEY I chose the school that I though would be best for me. There were a lot of different things between ... JANAY YANCEY But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Fallin... RICK YANCEY Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end. RICK YANCEY The night wears on; the fire dwindles; the wind shifts and my heart aches with nostalgia - summer ca... RICK YANCEY Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under... RICK YANCEY Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn'... RICK YANCEY That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans,... RICK YANCEY We're looking forward to getting to the championship game, but our thoughts will be about winning (t... WAYNE YANCEY You've got to give Carl Junction a lot of credit. They came out and kept getting after us. YANCEY LITTLE Our hearts, the war.RICK YANCEY There is a light that glimmers along the darkening edge of an infinite horizon. In that light the he... RICK YANCEY Are pervs only pervs if you don't find them attractive? RICK YANCEY She's hurt and still imagines I'd worry about him for even a second ? I touch her shoulder. Her touc... RICK YANCEY If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second? RICK YANCEY Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer. PHILIP TREACY Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them. PHILIP TREACY PHILIP GREEN PHILIP GREEN PHILIP GREEN PHILIP GREEN PHILIP GREEN PHILIP GREEN PHILIP SIDNEY PHILIP GREEN Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own. PHILIP TREACY PHILIP MASSINGER PHILIP ZIMBARDO PHILIP ZIMBARDO PHILIP ROTH PHILIP WYLIE PHILIP HENRY PHILIP ZIMBARDO PHILIP SIDNEY
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeki... 
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seek... 
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the ple... 
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. 
Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of ha... 
The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures. 
Our pleasures and our discontents,
Are rounds by which we may ascend. 
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt... 
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, bu... 
So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are
to follow. 
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but infe... 
the pleasures of the damned
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. 
Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 Let me love Thee so that the honour, ric... 
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading 
The wise do not rejoice in sensual pleasures. 
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. 
May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed, and may all your friends remember al... 
And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, ... 
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectua... 
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... 
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good p... 
So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come. 
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple... 
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. 
One way of getting an idea of our fellow countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures 
The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise weal... 
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. 
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears 
Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasur... 
In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of l... 
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-... 
Feast of Philip & James, Apostles If we do not at least try to manifest something of Creative Ch... 
Women without prospect, who lead dull earnest lives and rejoice in their petty little pseudo-pleasur... 
To satisfy the sharp desire I had
Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd
Not to defer; hunge... 
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. 
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. 
If human pleasure did not have both a lid and a time limit, we would not bestir ourselves to do thin... 
Reading well is one of the great pleasures
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction w... 
Excessive attachment to sense pleasures leads to bondage, and detachment from sense pleasures leads ... 
A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasur... 
We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual plea... 
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. 
Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows are deep. 
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. 
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath i... 
Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and re... 
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. 
Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in w... 
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... 
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. 
I now embrace the pleasures of this life with as much or more passion as I did before, but I do so w... 
There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing. 
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. 
God made not pleasures for the rich alone. 
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughou... 
Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain. 
God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c... 
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a ... 
The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. ... 
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. 
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to th... 
The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', b... 
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. 
Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to ... 
Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to u... 
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not... 
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not... 
...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stum... 
We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tige... 
I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis&... 
I'm in the retail business, not the circus business. 
Either I will find a way, or I will make one. 
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. 
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a v... 
Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi... 
Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species... 
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion 
All this, and Heaven too! 
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos...