It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Edward Everett Hale

You gave me forever within the numbered days and I'm grateful - Hazel Lancaster to Augustus Waters

John Green

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

Annie Leibovitz

To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature

William Shakespeare

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Albert Camus

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

H. L. Mencken

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Richard Powers

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

Frank Popoff

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

John Sununu

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

Karl Rove

Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.

Mary Oliver