Quotes

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. (Anatole France)

My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober.. (G. K. Chesterton)

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better. (George Edward Woodberry)

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it. (Helen Slater)

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. (Soren Kierkegaard)

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. (George Bernard Shaw)

Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire. (Dante Alighieri)

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. (Lewis Mumford)

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them. (Magic Johnson)