Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

William Shakespeare

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.

Suzanne Collins

You ask can we ever trust the Bear?... I will give you several answers at once. The first is no, we can never trust the Bear. For one reason, the Bear doesn

John Le Carr, The Secret Pilgrim

Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.

Ron Fournier

Adventure is worthwhile.

Aristotle

People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.

J. G. Ballard

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.

Lord Jeffrey

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Camille Desmoulins

Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

Bruce Paltrow

This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!

Samuel Johnson

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cather

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.

Victor Hugo