Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

Jules Feiffer

Travelling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

Thomas Jefferson

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Mary Wortley Montagu

What art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee Benvolio, look upon thy death.

William Shakespeare

It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.

Arlen Specter

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Kahlil Gibran

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

Ann Brashares

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pike, (attributed)

As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

George Bernard Shaw

...I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ...

John Geddes

Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891

Die Vernunft ist, wenn sie allein waltet, eine einengende Kraft; und unbewacht ist die Leidenschaft eine Flamme, die bis zur Selbstzerstörung brennt.

Kahlil Gibran