I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts--spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back -- length of life.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love

George Eliot

She hated that little voice inside her head. Like the Seelie Queen, it planted doubts where there shouldn't be doubts, asked questions that had no answer.

Cassandra Clare

No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.

Raymond Holliwell

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Paul Engle

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

Christopher Hitchens

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Bishop Robert South

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be mt flowers.

John Green

In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.

Marc Andreessen

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

James Allen