Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Christian Nevell Bovee

We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.

Pope Theodoros II

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

Henry David Thoreau

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be

Abraham Lincoln

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Sir Edwin Arnold

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

Mark Ruffalo

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Immanuel Kant

It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.

E.B. White

At least I carpe'd that one diem.

John Green

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

Bertrand Russell

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

Margaret Fuller