Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.
My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.
I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.
The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.
O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.
Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.
To be an aritst is not to wait for others to define us, but to define ourselves, claim our lives.
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
You're a marshmallow. Soft and sweet and when you get heated up you go all gooey and delicious."-
I think money isn't any good sitting around, so I spend some time in the shoe department at Saks.
Why does it say she has three hundred and twenty friends?" Josh asks. "Who has that many friends?
And here he is again, yet things feel like they'll never be as easy between us as they once were.
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage.
There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.
Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.
I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.
My sister is my very favorite person, and I dedicated 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before' to her.
Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.
If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.
Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.
There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.
To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write.
I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke.
The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.
Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!
I remember playing the Mad Hatter in a school play and feeling very comfortable in the character.
We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.
In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study
Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.
If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.
When I write books, I've learned not to have any expectations that I'm going to change the world.
President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.