To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lynne looked as if she were really having fun, Elizabeth realized. With a smile on her face and a sparkle in her eye, Lynne Henry was actually almost pretty!

Francine Pascal

We have some great ideas, but most of 'em come too late to do us any good.

Will Rogers

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

Anish Kapoor

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

Nawal El Saadawi

Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.

Priscilla Maurice

Hazing is an extraordinary activity that, when it occurs often enough, becomes perversely ordinary as those who engage in it grow desensitized to its inhumanity.

Hank Nuwer, Wrongs of Passage

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

Juliette Binoche

My kids love Ibiza and we feel committed to it because we keep coming back to the same area. People recognise us in shops now and we have a social life here. We cook at home and have friends around.

Neneh Cherry

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

Lord Alfred Douglas, Collected P

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Ayn Rand