Value people on their potential, not on their history.

In their figurative game of chess, Anthony Rawlings had Claire in check. Every move she made, he countered.

Aleatha Romig

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

Laura Marling

Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places. And they're just a matter of perspective.What changed my perspective, was her.

Richie Singh

Truth is the best defense.

Ward Churchill

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Marguerite Duras

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.

Fred A. Allen

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

James Baldwin

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

Orson Welles

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

David Attenborough

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

Jane Austen

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

Edith Wharton