If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.

The less routine the more life.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

Bill Bradley

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.

Benjamin Whichcote

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.

Suzanne Collins

A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement. As the captive men were faded and haggard, so the iron was rusty, the stone was slimy, the wood was rotten, the air was faint, the light was dim. Like a well, like a vault, like a tomb, the prison had no knowledge of the brightness outside; and would have kept its polluted atmosphere intact, in one of the spice islands of the Indian Ocean.

Charles Dickens

A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.

Eva Amurri

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

Adriana Trigiani

One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it - water stained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly grass or rank weeds about it, and a feeling, when you reach it, of abandonment. It may be colder than the other gravestones, too, and the name on the stone is all too often impossible to read. If there is a statue on the grave it will be headless or so scabbed with fungus and lichens as to look like fungus itself. If one grave in a graveyard looks like a target for petty vandals, that is the ghoul-gate. If the grave wants to make you be somewhere else, that is the ghoul-gate.

Neil Gaiman

Once you're moving you can keep moving.

Ronald Alan Weiss

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Plato

Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.

P. J. O'Rourke

But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.

Sarah Dessen