...It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.

Don't augment your complaints, augment your actions.

Steve Maraboli

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.

Samuel Rogers

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

Jeanne Calment

We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.

Steven Tyler

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

Brett Favre

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Abraham Lincoln

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

Daryl Hall

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Thomas Jefferson

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.

Joyce Maynard

Money is necessary in everyone's life. Why? Only because people have decided that it should be. It didn't have to be the way that it has become. If nothing came at the price of money, it wouldn't need to exist.

Ashly Lorenzana

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Margaret Drabble