He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.

Rupert Brooke

The band feels loose in all the right ways, and it's just so cool looking out and seeing all of these people that I haven't seen in a while.

Trey Anastasio

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

Jonathan Safran Foer

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Henry James

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

Anne Tyler

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Abigail Van Buren

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Roger Lewin

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope

and the cost of a thing is the amountof what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it,immediately or in the long run

Henry David Thoreau