There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

Orson Scott Card

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

Frank Moore Colby

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

Toba Beta

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.

David Byrne

Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.

W. S. Gilbert

Suffering has its place in the scheme of things. It serves a purpose even though the sufferer may be entirely free from the taint of sin... Among the gentlest and sweetest souls are sometimes found those who suffer much. A person that accepts his lot, does his best, loving both God and man, is a success and will experience a joy in living.

Joseph F. Merrill

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Johann von Goethe

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Sherlock Holmes

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it . . . and it is all one.

M. F. K. Fisher, from her 1943 b

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

Marguerite Duras

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

Michael Jackson

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Harlan Coben