Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape Nuts on principle.

G. K. Chesterton

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

John C. Maxwell

I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

Gloria Allred

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Charlotte Bronte

We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.

Joseph Addison

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Jacob Bronowski

Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.

Ally Carter

Probably went swimming and got eaten by a pineapple.

Terry Pratchett

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

Herman Melville

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Bertrand Russell

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

Stephen Samuel Wise

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Terry Brooks