A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Jean-Paul Marat

True love doesn't happen right away it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

Ricardo Montalban

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

Donna Rice

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

William Hazlitt

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Mark Twain

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.

Bill Bryson

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Milan Kundera

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

George Sand

If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it.

Doug Horton

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

Steve Jobs

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

Audre Lorde

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

Jack Kerouac