An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

Lawrence Kasdan

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

Jodi Picoult

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell.Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it.And it's delicious.

Orson Scott Card

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

Aristotle

It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.

Tom Stoppard

¡Si nuestra amistad depende de cosas como el espacio y el tiempo, entonces, cuando por fin superemos el espacio y el tiempo, habremos destruido nuestra propia hermandad! Pero supera el espacio, y nos quedará sólo un Aquí. Supera el tiempo, y nos quedará sólo un Ahora. Y entre el Aquí y el Ahora, ¿no crees que podremos volver a vernos un par de veces?

Richard Bach

Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor

Samuel Johnson

Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject

Bertrand Russell

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Jane Austen

He who would dig right down to the truth must simplify; his faith must be brutally simple, or he is lost. Laugh at the subtle shades and distinctions of the rhetoricians and the specialist physicians. Say aloud: This is what is, and then, That is what must be.

Henri Barbusse

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

William Ewart Gladstone