It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

Dwight L. Moody

Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.

Deb Caletti

It was enemies one wanted, not friends.

Virginia Woolf

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

Gustave Flaubert

As your lover describes you, so you are.

Jeanette Winterson

I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.

Henry Miller

Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.

Jim DeMint

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

Bruno Bettelheim

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

Elizabeth Taylor

I love mankind. And by mankind I mean women.

Jarod Kintz

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

Alain de Botton

I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.

Monica Seles