Helen Baxendale - Valentine's Day isn't always as much fun as many of us would like.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

Daniel Handler - I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

Noel Coward - Work is much more fun than fun.

Meryl Streep - Don’t waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living.

Marcel Wanders - I like swimming. I like the beach. I like fast cars. I like speedboats.

Amy Harmon - I would remember how I had wanted her and hated her and wished she would leave me alone and never let me go. And I would miss her.

Rosa Parks - I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.

Charlie Kaufman - I do like escapism. Like going to the movies on Friday night and seeing something fun.

Parker Stevenson - I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to

Eleanor Roosevelt - It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it

Helen Keller - I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

Ronald Reagan - We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Jill Soloway - Now we know that queer and trans people are magic. So many kinds of magic and so many kinds of normal.

Gertrude Stein - Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Pauline Kael - A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.