Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.

Oh what lies lurk in kisses!

Heinrich Heine

There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team.

Taylor Swift

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

Thor Heyerdahl

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

Karl A. Menninger

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Albert Camus

Government's first first duty is to protect the people, not run thier lives.

Ronald Reagan

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Wendell Berry

The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness, and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

George Santayana, The Crime of G

His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent if we had ten thousand billion years.

Lauren Oliver

I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.

Maggie Q

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP.

Julie Burchill