Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. The Tempest

William Shakespeare

sad things are beautiful only from a distancetherefore you just want to get away from themfrom a distance of one hundred and thirty years ....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful

Tao Lin

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

Haruki Murakami

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

Aldous Huxley

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.

Patricia Heaton

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

Charles Kingsley

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

Leonard Cohen

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Thomas E. Dewey

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

Tom Peters

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Mme. Riccoboni