No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

James Allen

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.

E. M. Forster

One day when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another. Having once got hold they never let go, but struggled and wrestled and rolled on the chips incessantly. Looking farther, I was surprised to find that the chips were covered with such combatants, that it was not a duellum, but a bellum, a war between two races of ants, the red always pitted against the black, and frequently two red ones to one black. The legions of these Myrmidons covered all the hills and vales in my wood-yard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black. It was the only battle which I have ever witnessed, the only battle-field I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the other. On every side they were engaged in deadly combat, yet without any noise that I could hear, and human soldiers never fought so resolutely.

Henry David Thoreau

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.

Cassandra Clare

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

E. M. Cioran

Tonight he would do anything in the world for her.Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.

Mary Balogh

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Samuel Johnson

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

William Hague