You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Miguel de Unamuno

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White, Some

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement -- but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Joseph Conrad

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'

Roger Goodell

The worst men often give the best advice.

Francis Bacon

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Vladimir Nabokov

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Cato The Elder

In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Mark Twain

I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed.

Robert Frost, quoted in Wall Str

To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.

Josh Billings

A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.

Henry David Thoreau

What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.

Steve Maraboli