The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Miguel de Cervantes

There is a distinct difference between the ability to create life and the innate need to protect it; to cherish it. The life you've created is the one being you love most in the universe, and that intense love evolves into something that goes far beyond a sense of duty. It is instinct; pure and undeniable. As a direct result, one must neglect all else to preserve it. Even those we have claimed to love before.

Jamie McGuire

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

Garry Shandling

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights.I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

Steven Wright

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

John Dryden

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Hosea Ballou

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

Eric Hoffer

Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill

What am I asking?

Alysha Kambeyanda

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld