The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

William Styron

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

Source Unknown

When a heart finds another, what's a cloud more or less in the sky?

Wolf and Page

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Why love if losing hurts so much We love to know that we are not alone.

Clive Staples Lewis

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

Justin Bieber

I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film.

Melissa Rosenberg

God is in the details.

Mies Van der Rohe, "New York Tim

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

William Shakespeare

A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.

Proverb

To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.

Solomon Ortiz

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

Agnes Smedley