Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

Gordon Korman

Habit is a great deadener.

Samuel Beckett

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

Rose Macaulay

I have told you that, no matter how many times you have refused to enter the sanctuary, you have only to knock and the door will be opened to you. I have said to you Ask and it shall be given you, but you refuse to believe in me. You think that someone is counting your sins, your moments of indecision or recalcitrance, but it is not true. You are the only one counting.I say to you brother, stop counting, stop making excuses, stop pretending that the door is locked. I am here at the threshold. Reach out and take my hand and we will open the door and walk through together.I am the door to love without conditions. When you walk through, you too will be the door.http://www.paulferrini.com/html/door.html

Paul Ferinni, I Am The Door

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

H. L. Mencken

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose.Now when I get pulled over the cop looks at it (moving it nearerand farther, trying to see it clearly)... And says, Here, youcan go.

Steven Wright

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Samuel Johnson

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Plutarch

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

William Blake

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

Pau (Pablo) Casals

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca