I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!

Elizabeth Gaskell

I confess I have the same fears for our South American brethren; the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. They are the result of habit and long training, and for these they will require time and probably much suffering.

Thomas Jefferson

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Bodhidharma

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

Kurt Vonnegut

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Don Marquis

We tend to be judged because of our actions.

Roxy Writer

there was a time before youbut I can't remember it nowa time before your beauty and Iwere formally introducedI'm sure I lived without youbut I don't remember howcan't imagine living withoutthese feelings you've producedjust one glanceand my life was redrawnjust one wordand my vocabulary changedI asked the timeand you said 'what's the hurry?'you asked my nameand I almost forgot

David Levithan

That the wall is coming down.

Cassandra Clare

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson