I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

Rita Mae Brown

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

Mary Stewart

People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him.

James Spader

This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up!

Steve Maraboli

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

W. E. B. Du Bois

A Man who has never lied to a woman has no respect for her feeling.

William Nsubuga

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Frank Birch

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Matthew Arnold

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.

Lynda Barry

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Lawrence Durrell

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Novalis

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

H. P. Lovecraft