According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

H. L. Mencken

When we give up the chase, we give up our wishing.

Stephen Richards

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Mark Hopkins

There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.

John Keats

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

Robert De Niro

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Joyce Meyer

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.

Henry Louis Gates

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

Simone Weil

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

Bertrand Russell

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dating in Los Angeles can be hard, which makes it all the better when you meet a really nice guy.

Lauren Conrad