Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

Kahlil Gibran

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

Amy Tan

For whatever we lose (a you or a me)It's always ourselves we find in the sea.

E.E. Cummings

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

Jane Austen

There is always something for which to be thankful.

Charles Dickens

After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.

Alice Sebold

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

Greta Garbo

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Donald Trump

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Rudyard Kipling

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option it is a basic health care necessity.

Louise Slaughter

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years -- except they had little to do with being a child.

Liza Minnelli

Like a ten-ton cake, the world is more than anyone can eat at one sitting. Select a piece of it, then enjoy the party.

Samuel M Silver