It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

Gabrielle Zevin

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

Zebulon Pike

Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.

Paulo Coelho

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

Ambrose Bierce

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Thomas Merton

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

A. P. Herbert

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

Bobby Darin

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Francis Bacon

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

Sheri S. Tepper

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

Mary Higgins Clark

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

James Baldwin