Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.

Paul Murray

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

Chuck Klosterman

Smile, damn it !! Smile.

Dame Sybil Hathaway

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.

Sarah McLachlan

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.

James Cameron

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Azar Nafisi

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

Jean Paul Richter

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

James Russell Lowell

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Don Herold

I knew they would kill me when they found out, but He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.

Marissa Meyer

If you can transcend from the dark rut of disempowered thinking to the bright light of an empowered agreement with reality, you will see opportunities not barriers. You will see the finish line, not the hurdles.

Steve Maraboli

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Sidney Hook