No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

No revenge is so heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.

Source Unknown

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

Jeffrey Archer

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

Oscar Wilde

I fought for peace in the fifties.

Pete Seeger

I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.

Elizabeth Warren

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

Marcel Proust

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

Oscar Wilde

The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.

Seth Godin

In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosion of an evil nature brazenly exposed, the mixture of bravado and abjectness, arrogance, pettiness, rage, absurdity; the hodgepodge of genuine distress, and lying sentiment, the shamelessness of a vicious man rejoicing in viciousness, the bare crudity of an ugly soul -- in this eruption of all suffering and hatred there was something which was hideous as evil itself and still as poignant as truth.

Victor Hugo

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Langston Hughes

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Henry Miller