Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Bod said, I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want, he said, and then he paused, and thought. I want everything.

Neil Gaiman

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Iris Murdoch

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.

Heidi Murkoff

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Tennessee Williams

If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.

John Lancaster Spalding

I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.

Frank Bruno

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Sylvester Stallone

Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Marcus Aurelius

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Ann Bancroft

The weakest are from deeply within the strongest of all natures

Jase Wolf

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

Bruce Catton