The only thing that could spoil a day was people.... People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness

Charles Dickens

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Emma Goldman

Everyone has a dream.

Rapunzel

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

Hannah More

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.

Richard M. Daley

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it.

Kenneth Robert Livingstone

The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal

Lady Murasaki Shikibu

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson

Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.

Yevgeny Zamyatin