I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-Oscar Wilde
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others
-Harry S. Truman
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger