Be happy or die.

I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her, and that is something I have never had. But there is a part of her that is only for me. You cannot touch it, no matter how hard you might try. And after she has left you I will still be here, making her laugh. My light shining in her. I will still be here long after she has forgotten your name.

Patrick Rothfuss

I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

Lee Myung-bak

Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.

Paulo Coelho

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

David Ricardo

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science

Thomas Carlyle

I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.

John Michael Higgins

To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish

Benjamin Franklin

I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary.

Nathan Hale

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.

John Burroughs

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

H. G. Wells

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

John Dos Passos

Eccentricities of genius.

Charles Dickens