A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
-Benjamin Franklin
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.