"Fashions have done more harm than revolutions."

“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”

“The heart that truly loves never forgets.”

Source : Sophie Jordan (2012). “Vanish”, p.4, Oxford University Press - Children

“I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 8, 2008.

“It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.”

Source : Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”, p.70

“You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.”

“Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think not. After all, it is perfectly normal—indeed, deeply human—to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty. Should we not be moved when it produces a vision—a creature—of the purest sweetness?”

“Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except maybe writing a story. And nothing fails as often, except writing stories. And like a story, love must be troubled to be interesting.”

Source : John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.140, W. W. Norton & Company

“We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.”