When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

My parents are wonderful and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person. She goes completely on her feelings of things on her intuition and so she instilled that in my brothers and I.

Some old men continually praise the time of their youth. In fact you would almost think that there were no fools in their days but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world have been achieved by poor men poor scholars poor professional men poor artisans and artists poor philosophers poets and men of genius.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

In December 1998 I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship one that had grown more slowly than I had wished but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.