What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Abraham Lincoln

The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.

Deb Caletti

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

Susan Orlean

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Martin Luther

Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.

Georgette Heyer

And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot briskly and my arms to pump up and down like pistons, but I force myself to stroll past the stalls and pavement cafes. To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling deep lungfuls of air, instead of my usual shallow breaths. I take a moment to just stop and look around me. And smile to myself.For the first time in a long time, I can, quite literally, smell the coffee.

Alexandra Potter

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Michel de Montaigne

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.

William Cartwright

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

Madeleine Albright

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.

Sandra Bullock

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

Victor Hugo

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Plato