Budgets are for cutting, that's why you set them.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Samuel Johnson

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

Henry Moore

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Toni Morrison

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden cause of things

Johannes Kepler

I'm so tired, but I can't sleep...standing on the edge of something much too deep...funny how I feel so much but cannot say a word...we are screaming inside, oh, but we can't be heard...so afraid to love you, more afraid to lose...clinging to a past

Sarah McLachlan

As long as we have an unjust society, like we do now, we will never have a loving society. If you don

Jane Elliot, speech at Wait Chap

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

Joan Rivers

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

Susan Sontag

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

William Pitt