Taxation without representation is tyranny.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.
I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.
....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healthy who wants? The very word want suggests a lack, an impoverishment, and that is what desire is: an impoverishment of the brain, a flaw, a mistake.
Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.