Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

Plato

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

Julian Clary

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.

Victor Hugo

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

John Green

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

English Proverb

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.

J.K. Rowling

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Arthur Schopenhauer

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

Phil Collins

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Mary Manin Morrissey

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

Robert E. Lee

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Ayn Rand