The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not one of them could be under sixty.

Stephen King

Tell all the truth but tell it slant - success in circuit lies.

Emily Dickinson

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith - it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

Robert A. Heinlein, Jubal Harsha

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

David Dinkins

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.

John Green

Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde

New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.

Margot Robbie

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Buddha

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.

Saint Augustine

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Sigmund Freud

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

Jos

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk