When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent -- or they themselves -- was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.

Jean Genet

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

Muriel Barbery

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

Leo Tolstoy

Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to.

Jodi Picoult

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

Rita Dove

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

Lawrence Durrell

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

Oscar Wilde

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

Gertrude Jekyll

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Michael O'Brien

I love to take risks, I love to travel, and I'm very outdoor-sy, so any girl who can pick up a football and throw a spiral will definitely catch my attention.

Kellan Lutz