There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus

When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, youhave plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.

Jodi Picoult

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Jules Ellinger

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

Kurt Cobain

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Voltaire

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

Kami Garcia

So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.

Craig Johnston

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

George Santayana

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Buddha

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it -- whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

Harper Lee