Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.

Catherynne M. Valente

I think you can love a person too much.You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.

Jodi Picoult

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

Jean Claude Duvalier

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

Terry Pratchett

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Steve Jobs

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

Paulo Coelho

this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others,

Plato

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Ovid

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Oscar Wilde

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Charles Kennedy