The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

Nelson Mandela

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

Jodi Picoult

Things are done according to money these days.

Shirley MacLaine

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

Jodi Picoult

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

Wislawa Szymborska

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

Oscar Wilde

You've sort of made up for it tonight,' said Harry. 'Getting the sword. Finishing off the Horcux. Saving my life.' 'That makes me sound a lot cooler than I was,' Ron mumbled.'Stuff like that always sounds cooler than it really was,' said Harry. 'I've been trying to tell you that for years.'Simultaneously they walked forwards and hugged, Harry gripping the still sopping back of Ron's jacket.

J.K. Rowling

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Michel de Montaigne

People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

Anna Quindlen

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Chinese Proverb

Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.

Arthur Quinn, Figures of Speech,

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

Dr. Howard Murphy