Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

John Green

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Layne Staley

Oh, is it not enough to be Here with this beauty over me? My throat should ache with praise, and I Should kneel in joy beneath the sky. Oh, beauty are you not enough?

Sara Teasdale

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

William Hazlitt

In the long run all love is paid by love, Though undervalued by the hosts of earth; The great eternal Government above Keeps strict account and will redeem its worth. Give thy love freely; do not count the cost; So beautiful a thing was never lostIn the long run.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, In The Long

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Aneurin Bevan

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Ambrose Bierce

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

Nadine Gordimer

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

Marilyn Monroe

Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.

B. C. Forbes