"A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully."

“In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.”

“If a man knew how to live he would never die.”

“The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.”

Source : "Outtakes from Leighton Meester's February Cover Shoot". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 3, 2011.

“I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.”

“If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle wiht the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expacted or hoped to see than on what was really there.”

“To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.”

“When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.”

“I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity.”

Source : FaceBook post by Virginia Madsen from Jul 20, 2015