It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

Frank Dane

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Frank Birch

After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.

Kelly Cutrone

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

Anne Rice

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

Angela Davis

Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.

Zach Wamp

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

Coleman Dowell

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

John Green

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold.

Anne Bronte

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Antoine Rivarol

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg C. Lichtenberg