Disappointments are like weeds in the garden. You can let them grow and take over your life, or you can rout them out and let the flowers sprout.

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

Utada Hikaru

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Mark Twain

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

Bobby Darin

[Your] dream will challenge, prod and haunt you until you surrender to its call.

Wayne Cordeiro

He who has love in his breast has ever the spurs at his flanks.

Bernardo Dovizi

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist

Oscar Wilde

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Francis of Assisi

I wasn't affected by inflation, I had nothing to inflate.

Gerald Barzan

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tears fell from my eyes--yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.

Marguerite Blessington, The Conf

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

Matthew Green

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions.

Omar Bradley