Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

Hope Edelman

Life is a dream a little less inconstant.

Blaise Pascal

On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!

Chandler Massey

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert he was like a second father.

Herb Ritts

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

Raymond Chandler

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Barbara de Angelis

Eternity -- waste of time.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Deliver me from Swedish furniture.Deliver me from clever art......May I never be complete.May I never be content.May I never be perfect.

Chuck Palahniuk

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.

Malcolm Turnbull