Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

When you're about to die, your whole life's supposed to flash before your eyes. When you fall in true love, on the other hand, what you see in the twinkling of an eye is your entire future.

Tom Holt

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.

Cassandra Clare

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

Leonard Cohen

I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.

John H. Speke

I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.

Kevin O'Leary

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Phil McGraw

Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

R. Emmett Tyell

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Victor Hugo

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

Horace

I leave out the parts that people skip.

Elmore Leonard

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

Eric Hoffer

Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

Joseph Campbell