Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Mark Twain

The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame

Mason Cooley

If one wants to get out and stay out of debt he should act his wage.

Source Unknown

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

Orson Welles

People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.

Johann von Goethe

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

Ernest Hemingway

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

Chris Evert

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

Charles Baudelaire

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Charles Sumner

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Alexander Woollcott

Repeticio est mater studiorum.

Thomas Aquinas

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

Amy Tan