The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

John Wooden

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Joseph Schumpeter

Adolescence in my growing up period was truly Happy Days, the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.

Virgil Miller Newton

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Richard Rorty

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Sir Philip Sidney

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Audrey Hepburn

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell -- in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

Umberto Eco, The Island of the D

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective it reminds you to feel.

Mick Fleetwood

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

Germaine Greer

Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.

Sara Shepard

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

Cassandra Clare