It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now. - Charles de Lint

Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek. — Tom Robbins, from Jitterbug Perfume

You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.

You’re not a nun, are you? You haven’t taken one of those absurd vows that cut you off from what otherwise might be a full and healthy human existence?