After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Henry David Thoreau

You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.

Harriet Evans

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

Oscar Wilde

I was taken to a villa to meet Sabri al-Banna, known as 'Abu Nidal' ('father of struggle'), who was at the time emerging as one of Yasser Arafat's main enemies. The meeting began inauspiciously when Abu Nidal asked me if I would like to be trained in one of his camps. No thanks, I explained. From this awkward beginning there was a further decline. I was then asked if I knew Said Hammami, the envoy of the PLO in London. I did in fact know him. He was a brave and decent man, who in a series of articles in the London had floated the first-ever trial balloon for a two-state solution in Israel/Palestine. 'Well tell him he is a traitor,' barked my host. 'And tell him we have only one way with those who betray us.' The rest of the interview passed as so many Middle Eastern interviews do: too many small cups of coffee served with too much fuss; too many unemployed heavies standing about with nothing to do and nobody to do it with; too much ugly furniture, too many too-bright electric lights; and much too much . The only political fact I could winnow, from Abu Nidal's vainglorious claims to control X number of 'fighters' in Y number of countries, was that he admired the People's Republic of China for not recognizing the State of Israel. I forget how I got out of his office.

Christopher Hitchens

Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household.

George Bernard Shaw

Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.

Dawn Powell

Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll

Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sanoa healthy mind in a healthy body

Hippocrates

I wouldn’t have done well in an Olympiad or a math contest. But I like to ponder. And pondering things, just sort of thinking about it and thinking about it, turns out to be a pretty good approach.

James H. Simons

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

Kahlil Gibran

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Annie Leibovitz

I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.

Gillian Flynn