Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

When your intent and your actions are aligned, you are speaking directly to God.

Steve Maraboli

I would live to study, and not study to live.

Francis Bacon

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Andrea Dworkin

Jack Force was more than she had ever dared wish for, and he was better than a dream or a fantasy because he was real. He was far from perfect, moody and distant at times, and burdened with sharp temper and an impulsiveness that was part of his dark nature. But she felt more love for him than she thought possible. He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for her. (Schuyler Van Alen)

Melissa de la Cruz

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

An Wang

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Arthur Erickson

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

Daniel Nathans

When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.

Tea Obreht

Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.

Frank Tyger

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Kurt Vonnegut

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment

Voltaire

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Herbert Spencer