Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.

Princess of Wales Diana

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Honore de Balzac

Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!

Mikhail Bulgakov

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity

Ben Jonson

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Christopher Fieldes

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.

James Buchan

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

Doug Larson

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

H. L. Mencken

Well, it's very easy for me to gain weight, but even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn't do it any longer because I liked my food too much.

Amanda Seyfried

Make your life a mission-not an intermission.

Arnold Glasgow

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

Oscar Wilde

I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

Caroline Kennedy