There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Nature hates calculators.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Elbert Hubbard

girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those in the know assured me that they were beautiful.

Jake Vander Ark

Beauty is not everything!

Chita Rivera

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.

Oliver Goldsmith

It is my mood which decides the weather, it is my mood which brings the tiny changes to humankind.

Santosh Kalwar

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

George Bernard Shaw

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Plutarch

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

Ernest Hemingway

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.

J.K. Rowling