When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

America Ferrera

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

Marty Rubin

Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.

Helen Nielsen

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Daniel Webster

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Wallace Stevens

Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing -- fortifying and bracing -- seemingly just as was wanted -- sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.

Jane Austen

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale

A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.

Henry Cloud

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Stanislaw Lec

Life is a gift horse in my opinion.

J. D. Salinger

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia.

Gen. George Pickett, Gettysburg,