One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

If freedom isn't worth dying for, then...what is it really worth?

Timothy Pina

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau

And what about those [writers' workshop] critiques, by the way? How valuable are they? Not very, in my experience, sorry. A lot of them are maddeningly vague. someone may say. It seems to occur to few of the attendees that if you have a feeling you just can't describe, you might just be, I don't know, kind of like, my sense of it is, maybe in the wrong fucking class.

Stephen King

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

Victor Hugo

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

Dave Barry

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Walt Disney

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

Norton Juster

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.

Jane Austen

For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.

Will Rogers

Love is the most beautiful thing that can happen to someone. No one can explain that feeling and desires engrossing a person preparing to give their heart to someone.

Natalie Ansard

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Stephen Fry

The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and made their own bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loafs seem,so perfumes, as home-made bread used to be before the war.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence