Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Princess of Wales Diana

Women have a predestination to suffering.

Bela Lugosi

There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

Jenna Elfman

I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. The mortality among pianists in that place is marvellous.

Oscar Wilde, Impressions of Amer

We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.

Thomas Merton

the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water

Virginia Woolf

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Ulysses S. Grant

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Bertrand Russell

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Chinese Proverb

Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

Thomas Jefferson

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

George Saunders