Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a lot, but I prefer to fill my life with people who let me climb on top of their shoulders, not people who try to keep me planted on the ground.

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.

Barbara Ehrenreich

You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.

Alanna Ubach

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

Albert Camus

Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.

Emma Roberts

Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

John Dryden

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

Samuel Johnson

Despair ruins some, presumption many

Benjamin Franklin

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.

Benjamin Franklin

When a woman wants a man and lusts after him, the lover need not bother to conjure up opportunities, for she will find more in an hour than we men could think of in a century.

Source Unknown

The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now than another aspect of that ancient urge - much older than the desire for truth - to command attention, dominate one's fellows.

Barry Unsworth

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Madeleine L'Engle