Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

John Slattery

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Pope John XXIII

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.

Zoe Kravitz

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

Phillip E. Johnson

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

Alvin Toffler

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

Charles Dickens

He who knows others is wise.He who knows himself is enlightened.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine at their heels, I'm astonished to perceive how good a purpose the level of excitement is made to serve.

Henry David Thoreau

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

Jean de La Fontaine

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

William Faulkner

I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

Jim Harrison

I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I will help you, and you will do as much for me. Then we do not need to worry, I do not suppose anyone could stop all three of us, at least not before we can escape

Naomi Novik