I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

~ Francoise Sagan, playwright and novelist (1935-2004) 

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. 

~ Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870)

Flowers are the music of the ground, From earth's lips spoken without sound.
~ Edwin Curran

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.  

~  Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher (1905-1980)

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it. 

~ John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue. 

~ Dilbert

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. 

~ Charlie Chaplin, actor, director, and composer (1889-1977)

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. 

~ Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)

Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. 

~ Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind. 

~ Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971)

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. 

~ James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961) 

And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author and aviator (1900-1945) 

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. 

~ Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (1907-1988) 

To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms. 

~ John Leonard, critic (1939-2008)

I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it. 

~ Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971) 

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. 

~ George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. 

~ Chinese proverb 

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. 

~ Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the US (1809-1865)