You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.

Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.

Sir Peter Medawar

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

Robert Herrick

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Good people can't out-think evil, 'cause evil think of things good folks can't think of. Can't enter your head what evil do.

Orson Scott Card

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

Nicholas Sparks

Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.

Helen Fielding

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose

Friedrich Nietzsche

Keep our Empire undismembered guide our Forces by Thy Hand, gallant blacks from far Jamaica, Honduras and Togoland; protect them Lord in all their fights, and even more, protect the whites.

John Betjeman

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

Diana Scharf Hunt

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

Oscar Wilde

Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Mary Wollstonecraft