The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Our culture promotes individuality, while the Amish are deeply entrenched in community. To us, if someone stands out, it's no big deal because diversity is respected and expected. To the Amish, there's no room for deviation from the norm. It's important to fit in, because that similarity of identity is what defines the society. If you don't fit in, the consequences are psychological tragic, you stand alone when all you've ever known is being part of the group.

Jodi Picoult

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building

Oscar Wilde

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Samuel Johnson

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Margaret Drabble

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

Amanda Seyfried

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Lemony Snicket

A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.

Gustavo Dudamel

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Jerry Della Femina

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

Graham Greene

You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs.

Mitt Romney

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

Denis Diderot

To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish

Benjamin Franklin