The earth loveth the shower, and the holy ether knoweth what love is. The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made.

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

Carry Nation

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

Francis Bacon

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Sophocles

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has ben poisoned,only after the last fish has been caught,only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

American Indian Proverb, Cree In

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

Donna Tartt

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

Anne Bronte

Because viewing my naked chest has caused many women to seriously injure themselves stampeding to get to me.

Cassandra Clare

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

Juliette Binoche

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Duke Ellington

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

Fred Upton