America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Baltasar Gracian

Everybody wants to go heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Joe E. Louis

A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.

Jorge Luis Borges

So the lover must struggle for words.

T. S. Eliot

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder -- at night and on weekends. On the modeling profession

Claudia Schiffer

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

Bill Gates

Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make?

Anton Chekhov

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

Major Owens

All right. The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.

John Green