One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.

Deny Self for Self's sake

Benjamin Franklin

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Thomas Fuller

From the moment I liberated Brigitte, the moment I showed her how to be truly herself, our marriage was all downhill.

Roger Vadim

You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.

Marco Rubio

You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.

Ron Fournier

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Walter Kerr

Man liebt zuletzt seine Begierde, und nicht das Begehrte.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!

Andy Cohen

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

C. T. Studd

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Ann Richards

What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Miss Mehi

Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.

Jason Mraz