How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

I had a lot of pimples too. One day I fell asleep in a library. I woke up and a blind man was reading my face.

Rodney Dangerfield

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A hungry stomach makes a short prayer.

American Indian Proverb, Paiute

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Thomas Carlyle

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

Doug Coupland

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

John Locke

An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.

Kathi Appelt

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

Howard Nemerov

The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.

Michael Ian Black

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Samuel Johnson, Boswell: Life of