Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.

If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Rufus M. Jones

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

Brigitte Bardot

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.

Simon Dach

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

Morrie Schwartz

Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?

Mary Baker Eddy

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

C.S. Lewis

We've danced in the risk of each other. Would you like to dance around the world with me?

Dave Matthews Band

Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.

Francois Hollande

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

W. Clement Stone

There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.

Michelle Paver