We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

John Gay

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Mark Twain

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.

John Ruskin

You may my glories and my state depose,But not my griefs; still am I king of those.

William Shakespeare

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

William Frederick Book

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.

Kurt Vonnegut

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

Neil Gaiman

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Taylor Swift

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Jack Kemp

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Oscar Wilde

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

Jack Miller

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

George Bernard Shaw