If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

I tried to make up by offering to be a subject for any cute tricks that science might want to try. And said, Mr. Wood, we cannot use you as an experimental animal, and I tod him, Doc, I'm an effeminate queer, I've never been used as anything else!

Robert Patrick (playwright)

There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.

Nick Hornby

Weak people cannot be sincere.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Lord, Bless our enemies have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

William Pennington

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

Virginia Woolf

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old no

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Robert Louis Stevenson

When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.

Chantal Kreviazuk

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

Helmut Jahn

Wealth creation is 10% of what you know and 90% Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards