I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Eknath Easwaran

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

Edmund Burke

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

Samuel Pepys

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

Rick Moody

Embrace the cracks in your life and the breaks in your heart as places into which divine light can shine.

Iyanla Vanzant

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

Jeremy Taylor

Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

Yves Saint Laurent

...light overcomes darkenss. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe, [darkness] can be defeated.

Dave Barry

Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

J.K. Rowling

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Michael J. Fox

Manners are stronger than laws

Thomas Carlyle