One cannot make plans to acquire happiness; it has to be unbidden and spontaneous only than it can give us peace.

I want to see the king. Wonderful. I'm glad for you. Why are you so glad? Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant.

Orson Scott Card

Press close bare-bosomed night -- press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.

Walt Whitman

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

Havelock Ellis

To this day, my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years, she's worked at the Library of Congress. Everyone knows Sameha simply as 'Sami.' Along with 500 miles of shelved books, her closest friendships are cataloged in that library. They are as much the value of work to my mom as is the work itself.

Hoda Kotb

Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!

Ogden Nash

Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.

Ernest Hemingway

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Rudyard Kipling

My mom's a social worker, and my dad works in non-profit organisations.

Seth Rogen

You put high heels on and you change.

Manolo Blahnik

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Robert Burns

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

George Ade