A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

Lev Grossman

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

Remy de Gourmont

I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

Sanford I. Weill

There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.

Thornton T. Munger

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.

Mark Twain, A Biography

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Sid Caesar

What's done, is done

William Shakespeare

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Bertrand Russell

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

Indira Gandhi

A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.

Source Unknown

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

Robert Frost