"All happiness is a form of innocence."

“If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.”

Source : Sydney Smith, lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.436

“My confidence level is a tremendous high.”

“I think women should make a habit of canceling the wars.”

Source : "The Mouse that Roared". Book by Leonard Wibberley, p. 145, 1983.

“For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth. The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic...”

“Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.”

“Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.”

“I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.”

Source : "Jane Pauley tackles reinvention". The SecondAct Interview, blogs.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

“I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.”