Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

In every waking moment, it is our next choice that makes us who we are.

Melissa McPhail

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

Leigh Hunt

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Stella Adler

Cancer is a curious thing...Nobody knows what the cause is,Though some pretend they do;It's like some hidden assassin,Waiting to strike at you.Childless women get it,And men when they retire.It

W. H. Auden

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

George Bernard Shaw

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

Katherine F. Gerould

Widows are divided into two classes -- the bereaved and relieved.

Victor Robinson

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage

Zig Ziglar

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

I mean, is there a chance for me? To have another life after this, a better one?

Cassandra Clare

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Lord Chesterfield, Letter to his