A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Sean O'Casey

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

W. Somerset Maugham

You always succeed in producing a result.

Anthony Robbins

Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.

Christopher Hitchens

The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.

Alexander Maclaren

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution

Oscar Wilde

i want to be stronger, so i can protect what i love more.

Hiroko Sakai

Living the dream.

Tom Giaquinto

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Colette

Jace: My father belived in a righteous God. Deus volt, that was his motto- 'Because God wills it.' It was the Crusaders' motto, and they went into battle and were slaughterred, just like my father. And when I saw him lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way, we're on our own.

Cassandra Clare