As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

But men are men the best sometimes forget.

William Shakespeare

We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle: that we are all citizens, and equal citizens, of one State.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Habit is ten times nature.

Duke of Wellington Arthur Welles

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

Chuck Norris

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

William Shakespeare

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

Amiri Baraka

He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.

Thomas Carlyle

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

An event in which you did not achieve your desired outcome (definition of failure).

Steven K. Scott

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

John Muir

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

Joel Edgerton

Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

Elizabeth Gilbert