Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Jean-Paul Sartre

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Herbert Hoover

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

Rita Dove

It was not the way Curve smelled that Colin liked - not exactly. It was the way the air smelled just as Lindsey began to jog away from him. The smell of perfume left behind. There's not a word for that in English, but Colin knew the French word: sillage. What Colin liked about Curve was not its smell on the skin but its sillage, the fruity sweet smell of its leaving.

John Green

No news is good news.

Ludovic Halevy

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.

Henry David Thoreau

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Aeschylus

You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel.

Pau (Pablo) Casals

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

Jessica Savitch

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

Jerry Saltz

There comes a time when every good woman has to throw away her favorite book and find another one that has a captivating ending, more intriguing characters and a plot that would actually challenge her mind.

Shannon L. Alder