Listen. All great literature is about what a bummer it is to be a human being: Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Crime and Punishment, the Bible and The Charge of the Light Brigade.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

Patti LaBelle

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole

Leon Battista Alberti

We have more than we use.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

Robert Kiyosaki

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Emma Watson

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

Daniel Johns

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Sophocles

One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

G. K. Chesterton

a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it.

Sarah Dessen

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

Donna Tartt

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch