Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.

Sense will always have attractions for me.

Jane Austen

People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.

James McGregor

Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of the waves. Whatever else his long, unprecedented life might have been, it had been fun. Fun! If others should find that appraisal shallow, frivolous, so be it. To him, it seemed now to largely have been some form of play. And he vowed that in the future he would strive to keep that sense of play more in mind, for he'd grown convinced that play--more than piety, more than charity or vigilance--was what allowed human beings to transcend evil.

Tom Robbins

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

W.B. Yeats

As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling.

J.K. Rowling

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

Mahatma Gandhi

We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.

Lyndon B. Johnson

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul

Mahatma Gandhi

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Virginia Woolf

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

Alfred Hitchcock

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Emily Dickinson