Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

Adlai E. Stevenson

She was telling me that I had a life of disappointment before me if I continued to love him as I did. A love that is too strong can turn poisonous and bring great unhappiness. And then, what is the remedy? Can you unlearn your heart's desire? Can you stop loving someone? Easier to drown yourself; easier to take the lover's leap.

Alma Katsu

The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.

David Lloyd George

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

Sa'di

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

Walter Savage Landor

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

Daisy Donovan

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jane Jacobs

The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.

J. G. Ballard

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

I just don't see why the past has to matter.

Cassandra Clare

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.

Mark Twain

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Edwin P. Whipple