Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there.... We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

Edward Abbey

Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.

Source Unknown

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

Chuck Noll

Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare.

George Chapman

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

John Lennon

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

Neil Sheehan

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

John Harrigan

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilder

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

G.K. Chesterton

I think brown marks a reunion of peoples, an end to ancient wanderings. Rival cultures and creeds conspire with Spring to create children of a beauty, perhaps of a harmony, previously unknown. Or long forgotten.

Richard Rodriguez

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Juvenal

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age

Friedrich Nietzsche