"Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will."

“What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?”

“Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.”

“... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, www.npr.org. 2010.

“No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.”

“If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?”

Source : Howard Behar, Janet Goldstein (2007). “It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks”, p.50, Penguin

“What an amazing and sacred place [Israel] to end the tour”

“I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.”

“We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.”