Fortune and love favor the brave.

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies -- all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

Angela Carter

There is nothing glamorous about death.

Roger Moore

To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder.

Louis L'Amour

We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul.

Ellen Wood

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Nelson Demille

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Sherlock Holmes

Make your life a mission-not an intermission.

Arnold Glasgow

Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

B. R. Ambedkar

What makes us threaten the things we want most?

Jim Shepard

Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.

Paul Chambers

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Plato

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Alexander Pope