My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.

William Shakespeare

If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.

John W. Holt, Jr.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Francesco Petrarch

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Herbert Spencer

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard Shaw

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

Justin Halpern

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

Groucho Marx

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

George Eliot

Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental.

Patti Johnson

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Henry Drummond

When a friend, then, indulges in the joy of unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself. He implores him, it is true, not to tell a soul; but if such a condition were taken absolutely literally, it would at once cut off the flow of these joys at their very source. The general practice is for the secret to be confided only to an equally trustworthy friend, the same conditions being imposed on him. And so from trustworthy friend to trustworthy friend the secret goes moving on round that immense chain, until finally it reaches the ears of just the very person or persons whom the first talker had expressly intended it never should reach.

Alessandro Manzoni