Anyone who tells you that it is better to have loved and lost that to never loved at all has never done both.

I don’t need someone to complete me, I need someone to make things a little bit better every now and again.

Why do fools fall in love? I'll tell you why, because everybody else has simply got too much else to do.

I don't mean to hate people, I just get forced into it.

I know very well that I have no reason to feel aggrieved - I am fully aware of how lucky I am, but knowing it and still being down makes me hate myself all the more.

I refuse to believe that clubbing is how people are supposed to meet to establish relationships on a level for beyond what we consider to be a norm in modern society.

It is so much easier to grieve for the dead than to care for the living. At least in death we are all perfect.

I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts.

I don't really talk to people.

I love paying tax so much, the sight of a gritter lorry gives me an erection.

Everything that happens around and within us is a reflection of our thoughts, imaginations, and actions.

Fair and unfair are for children

A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought up or not.

No king has a throne more beautiful than a bench covered with the autumn leaves!

We're not at war with all Muslims, we're at war with a subset of Islam that believes in killing in the name of religion, as jihadis do.

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

For most of us... the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.

He [Rubio] is so knowledgeable about this issue ... I'm glad to see somebody with his background step forward and say it's important and we need to look at it.