I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

Married women are far more depressed than married men -- in unhappy marriages, three times more; and -- interestingly -- in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in marriage, now as always, and who show symptoms of psychological and physical distress outside it. Not only their emotional well-being but their very lives, some studies say, depend on being married!

Dalma Heyn

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Frederick Douglass

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

Henry James

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

Nigella Lawson

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William Wordsworth

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

Denis Johnson

I have always wished for a computer that would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish came true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Bjarne Stroustrup

All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.

Suzanne Collins

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Khalil Gibran

Julian is bluff and sturdy, royal; he possesses a gracefully muscular, equine beauty so natural it suggests that beauty itself is a fundamental human condition and not a mutation in the general design.

Michael Cunningham