If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

Johann von Goethe

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

Karl Kraus

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

Whoopi Goldberg

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Heinrich Heine

I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.

Tom Sharp

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

will.i.am

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota, if your neighbor's car won't start, you put on your parka and get the jumper cables out and deliver the Sacred Spark that starts their car. Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one...

Garrison Keillor, Homegrown Demo

A manly form at her side she saw, And joy was duty and love was law. Then she took up her burden of life again, Saying only, It might have been.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

Mark Twain

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

Gilbert Parker