The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

- Jules Renard

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

- George Sand

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

- André Breton

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

- David Foster Wallace

My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

- Michel de Montaigne

"Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people will say that's not love, that you can't really love someone you don't know. But, I'm not so sure. Love doesn't seem to follow a plan; it's not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature--an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control."
-Deb Caletti

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.- Jane Austen

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
~ Frank Tibolt

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year.-Spanish proverb

"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. "
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
-Winston Churchill

"It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do. Otherwise, you will live your life as a prostitute, you will do things only for a reason, to please other people, and you will never have lived. and you will not have a pleasant death."
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
--Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history."-Carl Rowan

Today you are you, that is truer than true, there is no one alive who is you-er than you."
-- Dr. Seuss

"We are not just survivors; we are the architects of our survivance."
-Gabrielle Tayac

The devil made me do it the first time, and after that I did it on my own.
--Robert Fulghum, It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It