Amos Bronson Alcott

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.