Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Ouida

I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

Muhammad Ali

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties

Henry David Thoreau

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Love will make a man do some funny things, like tightrope walking across a telephone wire, rather than simply picking up the phone to call or text.

Jarod Kintz

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

Nothing has ever been more sure-fire than truth and integrity.

William Saroyan

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

Irvine Welsh

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Alexander Pope

At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be.

Christopher Hitchens

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

Hirohito

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Albert Einstein