There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.

People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Mitch Albom

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

James Russell Lowell

This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?

Henry David Thoreau

Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it.

Jim Beaver

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

Oprah Winfrey

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Victor Hugo

Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human.

Terry Pratchett

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H. L. Mencken

It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

John Green

The happy ending is our national belief.

Mary McCarthy