I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

Alain de Botton, On Love

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

C.S. Lewis

It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.

Guy Debord

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

Cassandra Clare

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Thomas Carlyle

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Johann G. Seume

Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.

Source Unknown

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Courage, Love, Illusion (or dream, if you will) -- he who possesses all three, or two, or at least one of these things wins whatever there is to win; those who lack all three are the failures.

Edward Lewis Wallant

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

H. T. Leslie

It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.

Stephanie Mills

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

Abbott L. Lowell