Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

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.

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.

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