Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

Bill Copeland

First melted off the hope of youth Then Fancy's rainbow fast withdrew And then experience told me truth In mortal bosoms never grew 'Twas grief enough to think mankind All hollow servile insincere But worse to trust to my own mind And find the same corruption there

Emily Bronte

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

James Humes

Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on.

Johann von Goethe

For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I'm not one of those pretty criers.

Sherri Shepherd

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

Christopher Lasch

Freedom exists only with power.

Friedrich von Schiller

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.

Joseph Addison

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

E. Joseph Cossman

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Vaclav Havel