Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

Your face, my thane, is as a book where menMay read strange matters. To beguile the time,Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under't.

William Shakespeare

There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.

Mike Mills

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

Sydney J. Harris

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

Neil Gaiman

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

W. Somerset Maugham

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

John Ciardi

It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.

Joyce Carol Oates

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

Thomas Hood

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

Thomas Carlyle

Understanding is a two-way street.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Words are made of silver, but silence is made of gold.

Portuguese Proverb

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

Bill Gates