Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

Krista Allen

From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace

Cassandra Clare

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Wallace Stevens

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known

Charles Dickens

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Blaise Pascal

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

Neil Young

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Joey Adams

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

Bertrand Russell

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

Bruce Springsteen

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

A. R. Ammons

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

Jodi Picoult