...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...

I think having children is the most amazing thing.

Rachel Stevens

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

Eddie Vedder

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong.

Sarah Gilbert

She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...

Markus Zusak

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

Ayelet Waldman

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.

William Shakespeare

No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships.

Simon Mainwaring

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is --Let there be truth between us two forevermore.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.

Arthur Balfour