Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

John Dryden

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

Marilyn Monroe

There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now...

William Shakespeare

I'm not going to pretend that I am the best thing in their life and they have to be totally loyal.

Graham Coxon

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner.

Christopher Hitchens

There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and financial opportunities. Other high stakes will be missed by people if they don't master and connect information.

Everette Dennis

I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.

Sloane Crosley

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Chamfort

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas

There is no right way to do something wrong.

Source Unknown

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Oscar Wilde