A world without love would be no world.

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

Matthew Broderick

You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.

Christopher Marlowe

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

Henry Miller

Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

Thomas Jefferson

Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner.

Christopher Hitchens

The truth is that the public has done one of those startling and amazing things that they do about once in a hundred years. They've seized an idea. What is it? That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Immanuel Kant

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out

Friedrich Nietzsche

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

Ernest Hemingway