No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better.

Samuel Butler

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Charles Kingsley

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

Miuccia Prada

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Kahlil Gibran, "Children of Gods

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Benjamin Franklin

Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.

Bud Abbott

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

L.M. Montgomery

Feed your faith and doubt will starve to death

Source Unknown

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

Sylvia Plath

An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.

Source Unknown

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

George Santayana, The Letters of