They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

Jodi Picoult

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy

Seneca

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

Luigi Pirandello

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Andre Gide

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

Eddie Vedder

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

Pearl S. Buck

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Henry David Thoreau

Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.

Morihei Ueshiba

Childish raptures!

Taylor Caldwell, Dialogues with

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

Stephen Fry

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Jonathan Swift

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Blaise Pascal