The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended -- and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.

Victor Hugo

The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey

Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.'Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis:Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

Victor Hugo

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Immanuel Kant

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

Nikos Kazantzakis

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Thomas Jefferson

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Norman Vincent Peale

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.

Algernon H. Blackwood

In a strong relationship, you should love your companion more than you need them.

Steve Maraboli

Don't ever brag about the funds(money) of your parents because they might leave wuth it when their time comes instead strive to make yours and have your personal bragging rights

Chuka Osa-Afiana

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Neil Gaiman

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein