The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

Martin Luther

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

David Mamet

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

Robert Doisneau

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

Kip Winger

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

Allen Ginsberg

It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.

Frank Carson

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

Princess of Wales Diana

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Samuel Johnson

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Mark Strand

...women will show pride and honor about almost anything except love ...

William Faulkner

He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,-- that we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that, this very now, there are harbingers abroad of a golden era, to be accomplished in his own lifetime.

Nathaniel Hawthorne