We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Michael Leunig

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

Barack Obama

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

Jodi Picoult

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

Curtis Joseph

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

William Osler

Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.

Mary Oliver

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Lewis Carroll

Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.

Teresa Mummert

When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.

Katherine Jenkins

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

Dorothy Parker