Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, the more fun I had imagining what you'd serve a vampire for dinner.

Deborah Harkness

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Jane Addams

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

Neil Gaiman

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One night I asked a cabbie to take me where the action is, he took me to my house.

Rodney Dangerfield

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

Annie Lennox

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

Ken Hill

When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won't please everybody, but it doesn't fall flat.

Ronald P. Chavez

We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.

Eliza Dushku

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

Rahm Emanuel