I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

Lil Wayne

Those things that hurt, instruct.

Benjamin Franklin

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?

John Green

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

Charley Pride

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Lawrence Durrell

I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.

Michael Nutter

Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Wallace Stevens

It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever, But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.

Louis Macneice

Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.

Herman Cain

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Nathalie Sarraute