Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Victor Hugo

It is exactly our sense of haste and impatience that impedes us from seeing the true beauty life has to offer.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Walter Benjamin

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Stephen King

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

Paula Danziger

His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.

William Shakespeare

Cheese runners shouted at it, tried to grab it, and flailed at it with sticks, but the piratical cheese scythed onward, reaching the bottom just ahead of the terrible carnage of men and cheeses as they piled up. Then it rolled back to the top and sat there demurely while still gently vibrating.At the bottom of the slope, fights were breaking out among the cheese jockeys who were still capable of punching somebody, and since everybody was watching that, Tiffany took the opportunity to snatch up Horace and shove him in her bag. After all, he was hers. Well, that was to say she had made him, although something odd must have gone into the mix since Horace was the only cheese that would eat mice and, if you didn't nail him down, other cheeses as well.

Terry Pratchett

I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.

Estelle Morris

In a sense, beauty is what one chooses to feel by virtue of what one chooses to imitate and to create.

Robert Pack

Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.

Kahlil Gibran

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

Kim Kardashian

I can do whatever I want -- I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Don Johnson