Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create to create life in that isolation from life.

Eleanora Duse

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

Paul De Man

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

Nick Mason

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

Marya Mannes

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

Julien Smith

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.

Calvin Coolidge

Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.

S. W. Duffield

The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.

Eric Hoffer

All that this world knows of living lies in giving -- and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

Alexander Maclaren

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

Robert Ballard

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children

Bertrand Russell