The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
—Kin Hubbard
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
—Alphonse de Lamartine
People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.
—Gillian Flynn in Gone Girl
Find somebody new to love someday. Take the time you need to heal, but don't forget to eventually share your heart with someone.
—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love
Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.
—Kazuo Ishiguro in Never Let Me Go
Love makes life a little brighter.
—Jodi Picoult in Between the Lines
Watching someone you love go through difficult times is like being trapped in your own body but paralyzed. You want to yell at them, scream, help them, but your body won't move, and you know that no matter how hard you try, in the end, the path is theirs to choose. You can't choose for them. What a terrifying concept, especially considering we hardly see every option when we're stuck in our own self-defeat.
—Rachel Van Dyken in Toxic
It's great when you finally realize that being miserable doesn't protect you from bad stuff happening.
—Alain de Botton
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
—Edith Sitwell
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
—Herbert Spencer
Everyone's a hero in their own way, in their own not that heroic way.
—Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
—Dr. Thomas Fuller
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
—Horace Walpole
To be prepared is half the victory.
—Miguel de Cervantes
I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
—Juvenal