The aim of love is to love: no more, and no less.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

V. S. Naipaul

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

Neil Gaiman

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

George Bernard Shaw

It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.

Brittany Murphy

Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!

Pliny the Elder

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

Juliette Lewis

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

William Penn

A woman has the age she deserves.

Coco Chanel

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Alexander Graham Bell

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Owen D. Young

I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.

Sara Blakely

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Bryant McGill