"I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories."

“He is the richest who is content with the least.”

“I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.”

“These are little packets of light and you need to plant them early in the year and remember to mark where they were because lots of times they look like weeds in the beginning and it's not until later that you see how beautiful they really are.”

“An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic.”

“Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me: And hast command of every part To live and die for thee.”

Source : 'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'

“There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.”

Source : William Ernest Henley (1906). “Views and Reviews: Essays in Appreciation: Literature”

“Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.”

“It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes.”

Source : Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “Bimbos of the Death Sun”, p.86, RosettaBooks