"As a member of an escorted tour, you don't even have to know the Matterhorn isn't a tuba."

“Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.”

“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”

Source : "Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good". Book by Miriam Adderholdt and Jan Goldberg, 1987.

“..The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid ground?..”

“It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since for those tolerant, book-loving librarians who allowed a child like me to read what I wanted to read.”

“Remember, second chances don't expire until midnight.”

“I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.”

“Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper, it would be too dull to read.”

“Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.”