The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Jeremy P. Johnson

We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

King Abdullah II

To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair upon you, feel her hook catch and snag on your heart. Despair says little, and is patient.

Neil Gaiman

How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?

Horace

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Paul De Man

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

Jodie Foster

We make silk purses out of silk.

Warren Buffett

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.

Ashly Lorenzana

To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.

John Ortberg Jr.

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

Mark Twain

Wisdom and prudence are always recompensed.

Sophie Segur