revealed to me the most important truth concerning human life. Which is that a shared, a loyal, love between two people is the most beautiful, the most numinous, the most valuable thing of all.

It's not lying when you do it to officers!

Terry Pratchett

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state.

Michael Parenti

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

Diane Wakoski

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Richard M. DeVos

Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat.

Scottish Proverb

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

Edmond de Goncourt

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

Miguel de Unamuno

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

Terry Pratchett

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Julie Bowen

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one

Rumi

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

George R. R. Martin