My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.

Judy Collins

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Mark Twain

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

G. K. Chesterton

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

William Howard Taft

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

Robert W. Service

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

America Ferrera

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Steven Wright

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Mark Twain

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

Mercedes Lackey

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

Ian Somerhalder

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Cleveland Amory