Hell is paved with good Samaritans.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Doug Larson

It is not that accepting and rejecting are great actions within themselves. But the right to accept or reject, now that is everything.

Joshua Emmet

In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

Robert Kiyosaki

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Blaise Pascal

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen.

John Updike, SelfConsciousness:

She touched something deep in his soul. He didn't believe in love at first sight, but the thought of hurting her made his chest ache.

Jodie B. Cooper

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Thornton Wilder

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

Deepak Chopra

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

Leo Tolstoy

The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been, hushed for ever on her bosom.

Charles Dickens