Our actual experiences are much less important that how we choose to think about them.

I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.

Jane Austen

Wickedness is its own punishment.

Francis Quarles

People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.

Brian Friel

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

Publilius Syrus

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata--of creatures that worked like machines--would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.

C.S. Lewis

I have two very rare photographs. One is a picture of Houdini locking his keys in his car. The other is a rare photograph of Norman Rockwell beating up a child.

Steven Wright

He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly

Orson Scott Card

The Sun would have wasted its life but for the evolution of life on earth. The one who gives should be grateful to the one who receives.

R.N. Prasher

I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage.

William Shakespeare

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

Michel de Montaigne

Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.

Proverb

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Michael Korda