An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

Thomas Fuller

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Mark Twain

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

Bridget Moynahan

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God.

Leo Tolstoy

Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?

Cassandra Clare

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

John Lennon

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Albert Camus

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Beatrice Wood

Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

Chris Kraus

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

Friedrich Nietzsche

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

Jane Austen