The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only sure way;

Mark Twain

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

Anthony Trollope

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

Louis C. K.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

Sometimes the love you'll feel after you've been hurt is stronger than ever.

Steve Maraboli

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Johann von Goethe

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Michel de Montaigne

I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.

Celine Dion

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

Jeb Bush

But when a Man

Jonathan Swift, The Tale of a Tu