You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to the dark glass pane of a window.

Cassandra Clare

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Richard Bach

The child has talent, loves music, and needs help. I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have. Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood, Fan.

Louisa May Alcott

[Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!

William Shakespeare

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Rick Warren

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Harold Pinter

It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.

John Bartholomew Gough

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The more respect that objects, customs, or laws are given, the more attentively you must question the right these things have to this respect.

Leo Tolstoy

The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires confirmation derived from the matter; in this case, being unable to assume either in order to establish the other, we suspend judgement about both.http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism/

Sextus Empiricus

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

Tony Parsons

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Herbert Hoover