One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.

As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.

Joseph Addison

Oh, it is sure as it is sad That any lad is every lad, And what's a girl, to dare implore Her dear be hers forevermore? Though he be tried and he be bold, And swearing death should he be cold, He'll run the path the others went.... But you, my sweet, are different.

Dorothy Parker, from Incurable

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Kahlil Gibran

Once I opened up a fortune cookie and inside was the guy's cheque next to me I said hey buddy I got your cheque he said thanks

Rodney Dangerfield

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Julia Ward Howe

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

Patrick Duffy

Everything that happens to you matters to me.

Cassandra Clare

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.

Steve Maraboli

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.

John Kenneth Galbraith

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

Scott Weiland

America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

Ralph Ellison, In African Americ

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

Jane Austen