One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Hope is possible, when you decide to believe that what you are hoping for is possible.

Patti Snodgrass

Love is a naked shadow On a gnarled and naked tree.

Langston Hughes

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Billy Wilder

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

Amelia Barr

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.

William Shatner

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

Thomas Love Peacock

Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.

Flannery O'Connor

No one but a fool is always right.

David Hare

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Fran Lebowitz

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

Christine Gregoire