"There are as many sorts of women as there are women."

-- Murasaki Shikibu

“I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel”

Source : Edward Heath's speech at the Hotel Exhibition in Olympia, 1969.
“Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.”
“In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.”
“Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.”

Source : Phoebe Stone (2012). “The Boy on Cinnamon Street”, p.5, Scholastic Inc.
“So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.”
“Play exists for its own sake. Play is for the moment; it is not hurried, even when the pace is fast and timing seems important. When we play, we also celebrate holy uselessness. Like the calf frolicking in the meadow, we need no pretense or excuses. Work is productive; play, in its disinterestedness and self-forgetting, can be fruitful.”
“Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.”
“If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.”

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