Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell

The people who marry make a good marriage not marriage in itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Queen Victoria

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Ellen Glasgow

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?

Terry Pratchett

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un été invincible.

Albert Camus

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.

Cat Cora

The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.

Daisaku Ikeda

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

Dee Dee Myers

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Michel de Montaigne

Writing is a craft not an art.

William Zinsser

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

Sir Thomas Browne