Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you, for a long time or for a little as he may choose. And if he will you to take the part of a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, then may you act that part with grace! For to act well the part that is allotted to us, that indeed is ours to do, but to choose it is another's.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

Bill Vaughan

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

George Ade

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Confucius

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Tough times never last but tough people do.

John Thomas "Spider" Salley

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

Ruby Wax

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers.

Albert Camus

I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world.I was drunk with it, with the scent of her. I'd got too close.The smell of summer on her skin, the half-recalled cadence of her voice, the sensation of her fingers on my fur. Every bit of me sang with the memory of her closeness.Too close.I couldn't stay away.

Maggie Stiefvater

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

Adrienne Rich

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

Alexa Vega

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hermann Hesse