The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

Erin Morgenstern

There are two ways not to suffer from poverty. The first is to acquire more wealth. The second is to limit your requirements. The first is not always within our power, but the second is always in our power.

Leo Tolstoy

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Mark Twain

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

Alexandra Paul

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

James Earl Jones

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

Michel de Montaigne

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

Brian May

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

George Eliot

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

Dan Millman

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

John Adams

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

Plato