It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Christopher Marlowe

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

Carol Burnett

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

Pat Brown

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

Rick Warren

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.

Lilly Singh

The fatter the flea the leaner the dog.

Proverb

A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Henry Adams

My parents are pretty cool people.

Dominic Monaghan

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night,So stumblest on my counsel?*Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

William Shakespeare

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Madame de Stael