The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

Freddie Highmore

All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.

John Knowles

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

I would rather go swimming with great white sharks than wade in romance 'cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.

Adam Young (Owl City), The Yacht

All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

Richard M. Nixon

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

Proverb

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

Christian Lacroix

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

James Robinson

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Johann von Goethe

In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution... even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.

Marquis de Sade

So I started out for God knows where.I guess I'll know when I get there.

Tom Petty