No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.

Rest, Logan said. Both of you. His caressing gaze moved over his wife and infant daughter.I'll watch over you.Love me? Madeline asked with a faint smile, and yawned again.It used to be love. He brushed his lips over her closed eyelids. Now there's no word for it.You once told me that you thought love was a weakness.I was wrong, he whispered, kissing the corners of her mouth. I've discovered it's my onlystrength.Madeline fell asleep with a smile still on her lips, her hand curled around his.

Lisa Kleypas

When I was born..the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to my father...I'm very sorry. We did everything we could...but he pulled through.

Rodney Dangerfield

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

John Stuart Mill

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

Louis Aragon

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.

Hippocrates

We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

R. D. Laing

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Tom Peters

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Joseph Addison

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Pierre Corneille

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

Andres Segovia

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

George Washington