This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

John Irving

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.

Thomas Kempis

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen.

Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes

I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would've previous to that. I was so innocent in respect to ways of creating characters.

Corin Nemec

Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

Nathaniel Cotton

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Karl Jaspers

It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

Mae West

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

Michael Tolkin

Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Xenophon

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Calvin Coolidge

Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.

Hannah Arendt