[commonplace] - It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me. - Henry David Thoreau
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. - William James
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. - Calvin Coolidge
I wonder if a memory is something you have, or something you've lost. - Woody Allen
All looks with strangers became the unspoken question, 'Are you the stranger who will rescue me?' Starved for attention, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes. - Douglas Coupland
Never let your sense of morals keep you from doing what is right. - Isaac Asimov