I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.

Boot-faced cats aren't born but made, often because they've tried to outstare or occasionally rape a speeding car and have been repaired by a vet who just pulled all the bits together and stuck the stitches in where there was room.

Terry Pratchett

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

And now she was colder by the hour, more dead with every breath I took. I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him the world run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.

John Green

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple...

J.K. Rowling

They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a little bad. Measure For Measure

William Shakespeare

Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.

Mollie Marti

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Baltasar Gracian

There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Booker T. Washington

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Paul Harris

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Socrates

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Eric Hoffer