No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.

Proverb

The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins exhumed and priced open, the photographs put on show what we were and what we will be again.

Peter Conrad

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

Jodi Picoult

Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions.

Ambrose Bierce

The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm

Kurt Vonnegut

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

Diane Wakoski

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

George Edward Woodberry

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

Robert Sternberg

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

James Allen

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

Demi Moore

The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!

Sumner Redstone