"Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires."

“My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.”

“I love being my age. I love getting older. What you lose in looks, you gain in wisdom. I might not be as physically beautiful on the outside today, but I'm much more beautiful on the inside. True beauty comes from inside...”

“The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief”

“I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.”

“People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.”

“I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortune should take that occasion to use me ill.”

Source : Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

“I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didnt have any phone service and we didnt have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed.”

“Not all who own a harp are harpers.”

Source : Marcus Porcius Cato, Marcus Terentius Varro (1967). “Marcus Porcius Cato, On agriculture; Marcus Terentius Varro. On agriculture”