I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life.

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.

Tim Duncan

Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.

Bobby Fischer

From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing &pound20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough.

Julie Burchill

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Henry David Thoreau

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Robert Morgan

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

W. H. Auden

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.

Alain de Botton

You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.

Orson Scott Card

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

Mignon McLaughlin

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow...that it passes through

Bob Dylan