Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

Ezra Cornell

Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.

Anton Chekhov

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Mahatma Gandhi

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Adam Smith

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

B. C. Forbes

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

Jourdan Dunn

It isn't about 'games', for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something, anything, far bigger than yourself.

Shigeru Miyamoto

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the

Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.

Emily Procter

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Owen Meredith

The real problem between the sexes is that for men, sex is a gender-underliner, they need it for their egos. We don't need sex to make us feel we are the person we need to be.

Carol Clewlow

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

Stephen Chbosky