“Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no courage to achieve advances that so-called realists would have you believe could never come to fruition.”

“There's a cover for every pot, but I've never seen so many mismatched pots and covers in all my life. - Ellen Wasserfeldman, from Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman by Alisa Dana Steinberg”

“Remember where you are and adjust yourself accordingly, not vice-versa ... otherwise, you might be toast.”

“I don't watch reality TV, my reality is tough enough.”

“Mental Note #50: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, even though it most desperately wants to. - Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman”

“Any discussion between idealist and realist would never end.”

“And memory insists on piningFor places it never went,As if life would be happierJust by being different.”