Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

Ian Mcewan

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

William Shenstone

Peculiar Travel Suggestions are Dancing Lessons From God

Kurt Vonnegut

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

Maggie Stiefvater

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

They have accepted the burden of eternal life. They have taken the agony from birth; and their life does not fail them even in the hour of their destruction.

George Bernard Shaw

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

V. S. Naipaul

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards. If you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.

Ronald Reagan

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Henry Ward Beecher

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

Ambrose Bierce

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Bob Beauprez

If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with

Ayn Rand, To the Readers of The