You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

Jodi Picoult

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Christopher Morley

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Walter Bagehot

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb

It's never too late with truth. It stands outside time.

Karen Kingsbury

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Epicurus

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing second, the gratification of one's family and friends and lastly, the solid cash.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

Henry Vaughan

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

John Green

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

Walter Lippmann

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before

Jane Austen

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Helen Keller