We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

I was never the cool kid, I was never hot in high school. I was never popular. You don't have to be perfect and you don't have to be rich and you can still be successful.

Ke

That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face grave, 'There they shot my father. My mother. My brother-in-law and now my sister.' 'What barbarians,' Robert Jordan said. How many times had he heard this? How many times had he watched people say it with difficulty? How many times had he seen their eyes fill and their throats harden with the difficulty of saying my father, or my brother, or my mother, or my sister? He could not remember how many times he heard them mention their dead in this way. Nearly always they spoke as this boy did now; suddenly and apropos of the mention of the town and always you said, 'What barbarians.

Ernest Hemingway

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Donna Tartt

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Emo Philips

Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part.

Thomas Paine

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

George Eliot

It is not what we know that scares us, it is what we do not

A.G. Phillips

To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.

Nelson Rodrigues

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Alexander Chase

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

Matthew McConaughey

Desire is the essence of a man.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza