We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

Terry Pratchett

Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

Ambrose Bierce

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

Cynthia Nelms

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

Samantha Barks

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

Faith Evans

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Henry Kissinger

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil.And he answered :You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

Kahlil Gibran

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

Dean Koontz

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

Virginia Woolf

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

Ramakrishna

I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.

Ben Barnes

It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

Cassandra Clare