Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Samuel Johnson

Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. and that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. in the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.

Sarah Dessen

Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.

Paulo Coelho

Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

Oliver Herford

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Shirley MacLaine

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

Henry David Thoreau

I like people in the cities, in the States and in the Nation to ask themselves now and then: What can I do for my city? not How much can I get out of my city? I like people to speak now and then in the same devotion to State and Nation, because, after all, my countrymen, whenever a man contributes to the betterment of his community, whenever he contributes to the enlarged influence of his State, whenever he contributes to the greater glory of the Republic and makes it a better place in which to live and in which to invite men to participate and aspire, he contributes to himself as he contributes to the welfare of his fellow men.

Warren Harding

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction

Virginia Woolf

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

Gustave Flaubert

Fish and guests smell at three days old.

Danish proverb

His life was gentle; and the elementsSo mixed in him, that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

William Shakespeare

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

Oscar Wilde