What's the point in living if you're not really going to live? Time's limited - choose to enjoy yourself.

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.

Omar Bradley

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

Elbert Hubbard

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Susan Sontag

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.

The Talmud

You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.

Sue Monk Kidd

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

Mark Twain

The policemen's faces glisten too, they're holding themselves back, they love this, it's a ceremony, they're implementing a policy

Margaret Atwood

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

John Lennon

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Tim O'Brien

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

Lord Kelvin

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Mary Wortley Montagu