A man is what he thinks about all day long. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To love is to lose control. - Paulo Coelho

The pen is the tongue of the mind. - Horace

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. - Charles Darwin

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. - W. H. Auden

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. - Rabindranath Tagore

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. - Mahatma Gandhi

Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening. - P G Wodehouse

Patience is the companion of wisdom. - Saint Augustine

Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a gentleman is a matter of choice. - Vin Diesel

Doubt is the father of invention. - Ambrose Bierce

You can get all A's and still flunk life. - Walker Percy

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day. - Ernest Hemingway

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. - Rita Mae Brown

Love loves to love love. - James Joyce

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever. - Alexandre Dumas

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. - Agatha Christie

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. - John Ruskin