Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

Mason Cooley

I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.

Sienna Miller

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure

Thomas Jefferson

Personal isn't the same as important.

Terry Pratchett

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

George R.R. Martin

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Emma Goldman

The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.

Vaclav Havel

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Herman Hesse

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be readily understood except on the basis of faith and hope because there is often a larger purpose which we do not always understand. Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln