Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

John Mason Brown

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Chanakya

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

Reynolds Price

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

R. L. Stine

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.

Hermann Hesse

To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.

Oscar Wilde

People don't want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they're worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it's not that people are always worth it, it's that love is.

Donna Lynn Hope

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

Stephen Harper

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

Mark Twain

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper.

Jane Austen

The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.

St. Thomas Aquinas