""...the best gift we can give each other is the gift of time -- those precious, special, eternal moments.""
— Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

"Interviewer: What is your greatest regret?
Gorey: That I don't have one"
— Edward Gorey (Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey)

""A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.""
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them."
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life)

"All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not."
— Nick Hornby