Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and more frequently the thought struck him that this faculty of working for the public good, of which he felt himself utterly devoid, was possibly not so much a quality as a lack of something --not a lack of good, honest, noble desires and tastes, but a lack of vital force, of what is called heart, of that impulse which drives a man to choose someone out of the innumerable paths of life, and to care only for that one. The better he knew his brother, the more he noticed that Sergey Ivanovitch, and many other people who worked for the public welfare, were not led by an impulse of the heart to care for the public good, but reasoned from intellectual considerations that it was a right thing to take interest in public affairs, and consequently took interest in them. Levin was confirmed in this generalization by observing that his brother did not take questions affecting the public welfare or the question of the immortality of the soul a bit more to heart than he did chess problems, or the ingenious construction of a new machine.

Leo Tolstoy

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Ambrose Bierce

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Edward Young

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

Neil Gaiman

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Gene Brown

Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.

Mary Buckley

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Henri Poincaré

Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!

Terry Pratchett

On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they're kind of aware that it's gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.

Lindsay Lohan

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Charles Richards

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Rudyard Kipling