Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

For the next couple of weeks she held Peter like a secret in her heart, lying right under her necklace. I could see him written on her face, and Tik Tok, too, seemed to catch shadows of him, because he'd stop to stare at her, puzzled, as if he'd just seen the boy flit across her eyes-seen the ghost of the kiss lingering for a second on the skin of her neck before disappearing.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

J. J. Abrams

Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!

Steve Maraboli

Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.

Elaine N. Aron

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.

William Shakespeare

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.

Andre Gide, Feuilles de route

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

Mark Twain

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.

Zane Grey

I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.

Chloe Moretz

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

James Jeans

I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.

Julie Benz