The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

James Gates Percival

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Raoul Vaneigem

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

Donna Rice

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

William Shakespeare

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

Matthew Green

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

Robert Cecil

I don't believe in New Year's resolutions. I think if you want to change something, change it today and don't wait until the New Year.

Georgina Bloomberg

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

Patricia Heaton

Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue -- in a sense, the only political issue -- and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all.

Robert Warshow

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

Nikos Kazantzakis

My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.

Jeffrey Kluger