Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making love with men of all skin colors--white, black, yellow--with homosexuals and beggars. She was anyone's, and anyone could do anything to her. She had one, two, three orgasms, one after another. She imagined everything she had never imagined before, and she gave herself to all that was most base and most pure.

Paulo Coelho

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Joyce Meyer

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Johann von Goethe

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

Jeremy London

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.

Tony Richardson

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.

Simon Fowler

Respect is not ever assigned it's earned.

Linda Tripp

Most New Yorkers want to look amazing, and they want you to understand that they look amazing, but they also want you to stop staring at them.

Ellie Kemper

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

R. A. Salvatore

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Khalil Gibran

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal