We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Stephen King

Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.

Jamie Oliver

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

Tom Felton

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

James Madison

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Amy Lowell

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Luther Burbank

It was quite impossible to describe. Here is what it looked like. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.

Terry Pratchett

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Dickens

Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

Ruth Stout

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

Mary Baker Eddy

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

Alfred Tennyson