I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

Scott Turow

Don't be too optimistic. The light at the end of the tunnel may be another train.

Source Unknown

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

Jean Cocteau

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.

Lena Dunham

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dori

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

Lactantius

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

Rick Perry

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Milton Friedman

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful

C.S. Lewis

When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.

Hassan Nasrallah

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Oscar Wilde