The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she had never seen before; nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

Jane Austen

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

Mark Twain

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

Ellie Goulding

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Baltasar Gracian

My dad died of a stroke.

William Shatner

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.

Harry Firestone

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts.

Addison Walker

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

Jonathan Carroll

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Denis Diderot

Love isn't about honesty. It's about protecting the people you love from things that will hurt them.

Simone Elkeles

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Leonard Bernstein