I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

Jodi Picoult

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth; Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Martin H. Fischer

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Plato

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

George Bernard Shaw

Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.

Charles Francis Richter

a smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing

Charles Dickens

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Alice Walker

As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

Dan Rather

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

Jennifer Lopez

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life.

Drew Barrymore

\ Who can know the absolute truth of illusion or emptiness? That is why we feel the fulfilled sense of this world.

Sorin Cerin