This is the trouble with all happiness - all of it is built on top of something that men want.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Menander

Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, you've got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

Mel Brooks

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Gregory Nunn

Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests.

Cassandra Clare

I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, 'I really want to be part of that,' but not realizing what that was.

Leighton Meester

Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Francis Bacon

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Neil Gaiman

You're not really in control, not with this falling-for-people stuff. You don't plan who you're going to fall in love with. It's all random - chance accidents of time and place.

Julia Green

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Vernon Howard

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.

Naomi Wolf

This is precisely why I being a teacher! Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything. Has it not occurred to you, my poor puffed-up poppinjay, that there might be an excellent reason why the Headmaster of Hogwarts is not confiding every tiny detail of his plans to you? Have you never paused, while feeling hard-done-by, to note that following Dumbledore's orders has never yet led you into harm? No. No, like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognise danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realise what the Dark Lord may be planning.

J.K. Rowling