John Dryden

There’s a part of me I can’t get back. A little girl grew up too fast. All it took was once, I’ll never be the same.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn’t equal the right thing for one day.

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak of yourself.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but they happen all of the time.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.