When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

- Don Marquis

Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.

— Brock Clarke

Never lose a chance at saying a kind word.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

— Rita Mae Brown

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

— Sidney J. Harris

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

— Erich Segal

Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.

— Carl Sagan

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

~ Elizabeth Stone

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

"I must learn to love the fool in me--the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool."

-- Theodore Rubin