I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Marilyn Monroe

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

J.K. Rowling

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,Love like you'll never be hurt,Sing like there's nobody listening,And live like it's heaven on earth.

William W. Purkey

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Specialization is for insects.

Robert A. Heinlein

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick, and Colin. Need I say more?

Chris Rock

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston S. Churchill

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

Jess C. Scott

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

Kahlil Gibran

What's meant to be will always find a way

Trisha Yearwood

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Mark Twain

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

John Green

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.

Dr. Seuss

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Mark Twain

Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

Ellen DeGeneres

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

François Rabelais

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

Ellen DeGeneres

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, just be my friend

Albert Camus

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Elbert Hubbard

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Oscar Wilde

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Marilyn Monroe

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Marilyn Monroe

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

J.K. Rowling

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

J.K. Rowling

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Allen Saunders

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

Mark Twain

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

Bil Keane

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Mark Twain

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Douglas Adams

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Dr. Seuss

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Steve Martin

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

Mark Twain

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

Dr. Seuss

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

John Green

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Douglas Adams

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

George R.R. Martin

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

Albert Einstein

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Dr. Seuss

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anaïs Nin

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Charles M. Schulz

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Jim Henson

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

John Green

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Dr. Seuss

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.

J.K. Rowling

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

Nicholas Sparks

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

J.K. Rowling

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Dr. Seuss

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

J.K. Rowling

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob Marley

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

Nicholas Sparks

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

Marilyn Monroe

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

Jodi Picoult

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Oscar Wilde

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

Benjamin Franklin Wade

The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

George Carlin

Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.

Suzanne Collins

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

Jess C. Scott

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

John Lennon

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

J.K. Rowling

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Ayn Rand

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Anaïs Nin

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Toni Morrison

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Veronica Roth

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Jane Austen

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Khaled Hosseini

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

Nicholas Sparks

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

C.S. Lewis

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Mark Twain

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

Marilyn Monroe

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Mark Twain

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

George R.R. Martin

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

Maya Angelou

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Dr. Seuss

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Aristotle

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Paulo Coelho

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

Helen Keller

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Marilyn Monroe

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

Sarah Dessen

I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.

Suzanne Collins

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Albert Einstein

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Oscar Wilde

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

William Styron

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

Lemony Snicket

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there

George Harrison

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

Victor Hugo

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Jane Austen

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

Sarah Dessen

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Mitch Albom

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Paulo Coelho

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

John Lennon

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Virginia Woolf

Don't think or judge, just listen.

Sarah Dessen

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

Suzanne Collins

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Paulo Coelho

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston S. Churchill

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

C.S. Lewis

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Marilyn Monroe

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.

Groucho Marx

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

Gilda Radner

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Thomas Szasz

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Charles Bukowski

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

Those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.

Kurt Vonnegut

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Mark Twain

Never memorize something that you can look up.

Albert Einstein

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.

Theophile Gautier

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Oscar Wilde

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Chuck Palahniuk

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

Alfred Tennyson

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Oscar Wilde

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Anaïs Nin

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Oscar Wilde

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Plato

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Marilyn Monroe

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

Marilyn Monroe

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Albert Einstein

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E. B. White

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

Lady Gaga

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Marilyn Monroe

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Oscar Wilde

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Ernest Hemingway

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind

Albert Einstein

May you live every day of your life.

Jonathan Swift

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Mae West

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Dr. Seuss

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

J. M. Barrie

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Francis Bacon

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

A. A. Milne

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Jane Austen

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

George R.R. Martin

Here's to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

Charlaine Harris

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

C. G. Jung

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Phyllis Diller

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

William Shakespeare

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

Never laugh at live dragons

J. R. R. Tolkien

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Brigham Young

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Oscar Wilde

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

C.S. Lewis

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

John Lennon

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston S. Churchill

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

L.M. Montgomery

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Jerome K. Jerome

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.

William Shakespeare

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

Desiderius Erasmus

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Albert Camus

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The planet is fine. The people are fucked.

George Carlin

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Albert Einstein

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that's important, you know

Marilyn Monroe

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.

C. JoyBell C.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

What's meant to be will always find a way

Trisha Yearwood

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Albert Einstein

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. e are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our

Charles Bukowski

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

May Sarton

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life

John Lennon

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

Albert Einstein

I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside remembering all the times you've felt that way.

Charles Bukowski

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.

Henry Ford

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

Frederick Douglass

When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time

Maya Angelou

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I cannot live without books.

Thomas Jefferson

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Mark Twain

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

C.S. Lewis

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

Alan Moore

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty

Maya Angelou

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

Mark Twain

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

Marilyn Monroe

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Anaïs Nin

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

Stephen Hawking

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Coco Chanel

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Friedrich Nietzsche

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Oscar Wilde

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Lloyd Alexander

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Oscar Wilde

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Stephen King

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Charles M. Schulz

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

Lemony Snicket

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anaïs Nin

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.

Woody Allen

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

William Shakespeare

The person, be it gentleman or lady who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid

Jane Austen

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

Saul Bellow

Books may well be the only true magic.

Alice Hoffman

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire

Charles Bukowski

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

Marilyn Monroe

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

John Lennon

If a book is well written, I always find it too short

Jane Austen

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

Dr. Seuss

Being crazy isn't enough.

Dr. Seuss

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Martin Luther King Jr.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

Walt Disney Company

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Tom Bodett

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

Stephen King

Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Neil Gaiman

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Shah Rukh Khan

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Nora Ephron

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

Lemony Snicket

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Dr. Seuss

The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Joseph Brodsky

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Maya Angelou

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

Mark Twain

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

Oscar Wilde

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Daphne du Maurier

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

Marilyn Monroe

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Winston S. Churchill

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

Mark Twain

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Mark Twain

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

Audrey Hepburn

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Oprah Winfrey

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Haruki Murakami

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Mahatma Gandhi

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Gabriel Garcia

I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.

Cassandra Clare

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Bob Marley

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

Isaac Asimov

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

Angelina Jolie

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Coco Chanel

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Arthur C. Clarke

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Maya Angelou

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.

Marie Lu

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

Mother Teresa

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

William Shakespeare

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Winston S. Churchill

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

Charles Bukowski

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Jalaluddin Rumi

And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.

Haruki Murakami

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

Bill Watterson

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

Jack Kerouac

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

Winston S. Churchill

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

Bette Davis

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

Veronica Roth

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

William Faulkner

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

Who said nights were for sleep?

Marilyn Monroe

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Leonardo da Vinci

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

J.K. Rowling

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Albert Einstein

People haven't always been there for me but music always has.

Taylor Swift

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

Steve Jobs

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.

Raymond Carver

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Mark Twain

I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.

John Green

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

Irwin Shaw

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Mortimer J. Adler

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

Anne Tyler

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

C.S. Lewis

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Terry Pratchett

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Alexander Pope

A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

Veronica Roth

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

Albert Schweitzer

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.

J.K. Rowling

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

William Faulkner

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Robert Frost

When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.

Cathy Guisewite

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Albert Einstein

God has no religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

We live for books.

Umberto Eco

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Maya Angelou

I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.

Nicholas Sparks

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

Joseph Campbell

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Marilyn Monroe

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Flannery O'Connor

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

Edgar Allan Poe

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Herman Melville

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Max Lucado

War is what happens when language fails.

Margaret Atwood

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney Company

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

Kahlil Gibran

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston S. Churchill

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

James Baldwin

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music

Annie Proulx

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Jalaluddin Rumi

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Albert Einstein

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Anton Chekhov

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

Marilyn Monroe

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Dr. Seuss

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Dr. Seuss

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

C.S. Lewis

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

E.E. Cummings

Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.

Gillian Anderson

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Albert Einstein

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

Gordon B. Hinckley

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

What you seek is seeking you.

Jalaluddin Rumi

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

P.G. Wodehouse

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Mark Twain

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

E.L. Doctorow

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Lou Holtz

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Frank Zappa

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Mark Twain

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

John Lennon

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Maya Angelou

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

Jim Morrison

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

John Waters

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

Nicholas Sparks

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

Mark Twain

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Allen Ginsberg

Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.

Cassandra Clare

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao Tzu

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Elie Wiesel

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

H.G. Wells

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Nicolas Chamfort

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

You never fail until you stop trying.

Albert Einstein

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

J.K. Rowling

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

Oscar Wilde

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Ernest Hemingway

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Maya Angelou

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Leonardo da Vinci

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.

Veronica Roth

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, ichaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.

Henry James

All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

Sarah Dessen

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Abraham Lincoln

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

Benjamin Spock

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

Idries Shah

If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.

C. JoyBell C.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Mahatma Gandhi

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

Amy Bloom

One love, one heart, one destiny.

Bob Marley

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Frank Herbert

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

G. K. Chesterton

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

Philip Pullman

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

Elbert Hubbard

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

Hermann Hesse

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.

C. JoyBell C.

But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Jane Austen

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Mark Twain

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

Maya Angelou

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Mahatma Gandhi

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

Nicholas Sparks

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

Jeanette Winterson

I love you like a fat kid loves cake!

Scott Adams

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Ernest Hemingway

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

Erica Jong

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this.

Dave Eggers

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Nelson Mandela

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Winston S. Churchill

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Sylvia Plath

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Henry David Thoreau

If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.

Katharine Hepburn

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

Neil Gaiman

Forever is composed of nows.

Emily Dickinson

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

Jorge Luis Borges

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

Jerry Seinfeld

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

Ivan Turgenev

Live to the point of tears.

Albert Camus

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

Maurice Sendak

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.

Nora Ephron

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

Richard Feynman

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Robert Frost

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

Joss Whedon

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Voltaire

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Christopher Paolini

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose

Charles Bukowski

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

C.S. Lewis

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Robert Bloch

Love is the bridge between you and everything

Jalaluddin Rumi

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

Bill Nye

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Marilyn Monroe

The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.

Rodney Dangerfield

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C.S. Lewis

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

A. A. Milne

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Mark Twain

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

Paulo Coelho

We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.

C. JoyBell C.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

George Orwell

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Paul Simon

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Mark Twain

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

Marilyn Monroe

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Margaret Fuller

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Jalaluddin Rumi

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.

S.E. Hinton

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Terry Pratchett

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get

W.P. Kinsella

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

Anne Frank

Find what you love and let it kill you.

Charles Bukowski

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

George Carlin

How did it get so late so soon?

Dr. Seuss

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.

Gilda Radner

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

A. A. Milne

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

Edward Albee

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

Henry Miller

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

David Byrne

Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

Pablo Neruda

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

W. Somerset Maugham

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

Milan Kundera

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

Emily Dickinson

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.

Marilyn Monroe

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Friedrich Nietzsche

love the life you live. live the life you love.

Bob Marley

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Colette

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

Margaret Atwood

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

Bill Watterson

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Isaac Asimov

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

The first draft of anything is shit.

Ernest Hemingway

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

Mae West

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Jalaluddin Rumi

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Robert Jordan

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

George Bernard Shaw

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

Anaïs Nin

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Saul Bellow

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Maya Angelou

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker

Never give up...No one knows what's going to happen next.

L. Frank Baum

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Stephen King

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Jorge Luis Borges

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Marilyn Monroe

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

George Carlin

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.

Dr. Seuss

Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

Barbara W. Tuchman

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

James Baldwin

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

William G.T. Shedd

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

Dr. Seuss

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

Lemony Snicket

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

Marilyn Monroe

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

Nicholas Sparks

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Ernest Hemingway

Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.

Bob Marley

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Walter Cronkite

Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

Ian Fleming

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

A.J. Cronin

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Clare Boothe Luce

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.

Roald Dahl

We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Cynthia Ozick

I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

Madonna

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

Elizabeth Peters

Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

Anne Lamott

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Mark Twain

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anaïs Nin

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

Jodi Picoult

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality

John Lennon

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

A. A. Milne

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Corrie ten Boom

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Haruki Murakami

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Anna Quindlen

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

George Carlin

Trees are poems the We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

Kahlil Gibran

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.

Haruki Murakami

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Marilyn Monroe

There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.

Shmuley Boteach

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Patricia Highsmith

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Charles Bukowski

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Jalaluddin Rumi

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Albert Einstein

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self.

Franz Kafka

And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

Anita Desai

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.

C. JoyBell C.

I am different, not less.

Temple Grandin

I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.

Margaret Mead

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Abraham Lincoln

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

Arthur C. Clarke

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Irina Dunn

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Albert Einstein

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

Vincent Van Gogh

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Mark Twain

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

Audrey Hepburn

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

John Cheever

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field

Niels Bohr

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.

Johnny Cash

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

Dorothy Parker

Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.

Lady Gaga

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Franz Kafka

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

Marguerite Duras

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

Jimi Hendrix

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

Christopher Paolini

And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.

George Gordon Byron

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Paulo Coelho

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

Rita Mae Brown

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

John Lennon

Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted

Charles Bukowski

Try a little harder to be a little better.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

Franz Kafka

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

Sharon Salzberg

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Mark Twain

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

Charles M. Schulz

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

Bette Midler

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

George Carlin

If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.

Nicholas Sparks

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

Jane Austen

Love is the absence of judgment.

Dalai Lama XIV

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

Walt Whitman

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. o not allow others to spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Teresa

The past has no power over the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Albert Einstein

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Katherine Mansfield

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any ndian.

Robert Orben

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Deepak Chopra

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

Mark Twain

God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.

C.S. Lewis

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.

Washington Irving

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Voltaire

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

François Mauriac

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

Eugene Field

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Paulo Coelho

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

Aldous Huxley

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Margaret Walker

When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

William Saroyan

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

Mae West

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Alan W. Watts

Don't be so humble - you are not that great.

Golda Meir

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Oscar Wilde

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.

Edgar Allan Poe

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

Doris Lessing

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

C.S. Lewis

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! ction will delineate and define you.

Thomas Jefferson

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Orson Welles

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.

Bill Cosby

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

William Blake

In a time of destruction, create something.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

C.S. Lewis

One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

A. A. Milne

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Mother Teresa

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

Susan Sontag

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Kahlil Gibran

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Horace Mann

Fill your paper with the breathing of your heart.

William Wordsworth

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way.

Stanislaw Lem

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

W.C. Fields

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

H.P. Lovecraft

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Jim Morrison

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Dalai Lama XIV

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

Winston S. Churchill

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.

Markus Zusak

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

Nick Hornby

People change and forget to tell each other.

Lillian Hellman

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Phyllis Diller

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston S. Churchill

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

Adrienne Rich

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

Isabel Allende

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Ernest Hemingway

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Mark Twain

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

Neil Gaiman

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Robert Frost

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Oprah Winfrey

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

Ayn Rand

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Boris Pasternak

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Frank Zappa

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

Who, being loved, is poor?

Oscar Wilde

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Sarah Dessen

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Dorothy Parker

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.

Gustave Flaubert

My rapier wit hides my inner pain.

Cassandra Clare

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

C.S. Lewis

A party without cake is just a meeting

Julia Child

I get a warm feeling among my books.

Anthony Powell

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.

Arrigo Boito

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Oscar Wilde

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Herbert Hoover

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Margaret Mead

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

Albert Camus

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

Albert Einstein

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively

Bob Marley

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

Lao Tzu

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Steve Jobs

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Jalaluddin Rumi

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

Charles Lamb

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

Nikolai Gogol

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Jack Kerouac

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together

Marilyn Monroe

A library is infinity under a roof.

Gail Carson Levine

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

Steve Maraboli

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.

P.C. Cast

You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written behind your silence and your suffering.

Anne Rice

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.

C. JoyBell C.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

George S. Patton Jr.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

C.S. Lewis

Where words leave off, music begins.

Heinrich Heine

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

Albert Einstein

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

Neil Gaiman

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Lorraine Hansberry

One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

John Muir

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

Marilyn Monroe

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you.

Maya Angelou

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Edward Abbey

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Elie Wiesel

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

Dr. Seuss

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Paulo Coelho

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Groucho Marx

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Oscar Wilde

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

Maya Angelou

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

J.K. Rowling

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.

Dr. Seuss

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

Let our scars fall in love.

Galway Kinnell

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

Langston Hughes

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

Joyce Carol Oates

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way

Steve Martin

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family.

Jim Butcher

If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.

Steve Wozniak

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPIALS.

Henry James

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

Johnny Depp

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Franz Kafka

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Benjamin Franklin

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

Neil Gaiman

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

John Lennon

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

J.K. Rowling

I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ

Anaïs Nin

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

Victor Hugo

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Robert Frost

My course is set for an uncharted sea.

Dante Alighieri

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Blaise Pascal

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

Tim Burton

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Guy de Maupassant

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Abraham Lincoln

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

Marilyn Monroe

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

Dr. Seuss

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up 'cause they're looking for ideas.

Paula Poundstone

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

Beatrix Potter

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Kurt Cobain

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

Stephen King

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Coco Chanel

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Maya Angelou

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

Michael Crichton

Only you can control your future.

Dr. Seuss

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

Marilyn Monroe

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Bob Marley

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

Joss Whedon

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.

James Burke

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

Abraham Lincoln

You can make anything by writing.

C.S. Lewis

Little by little, one travels far

J. R. R. Tolkien

If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.

Paulo Coelho

Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

Eleanor H. Porter

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

Pablo Neruda

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Baldwin

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Mark Twain

If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

Conan O'Brien

Shut your eyes and see.

James Joyce

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.

Katharine Graham

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

Bob Dylan

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

John Muir

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

Dr. Seuss

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Ray Bradbury

It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.

Terry Pratchett

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Plato

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

William Makepeace Thackeray

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life : music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tears are words that need to be written.

Paulo Coelho

A word after a word after a word is power.

Margaret Atwood

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Annie Proulx

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.

Marilyn Monroe

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

Edgar Allan Poe

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.

Kurt Vonnegut

The unfed mind devours itself.

Gore Vidal

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

Steven Spielberg

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.

Albert Einstein

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

Oscar Wilde

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

Bill Watterson

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

Bill Watterson

Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

Jalaluddin Rumi

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Margaret Mitchell

I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.

Taylor Swift

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Rose Wilder Lane

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Marilyn Monroe

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.

Lauren Conrad

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.

Edith Wharton

Is there no way out of the mind?

Sylvia Plath

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

Albert Einstein

The past is never where you think you left it.

Katherine Anne Porter

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Marilyn Monroe

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

George Carlin

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Zig Ziglar

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de La Fontaine

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

Virginia Woolf

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

W.E.B. Du Bois

I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.

Walter Tevis

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Mark Twain

Courage is found in unlikely places.

J. R. R. Tolkien

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Maya Angelou

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

E.E. Cummings

You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.

Carlos Castaneda

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde

If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Stephen King

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Jalaluddin Rumi

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

Neil Gaiman

I just want to be wonderful.

Marilyn Monroe

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Marilyn Monroe

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

Flannery O'Connor

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

Jalaluddin Rumi

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney Company

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger

Ben Okri

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.

C. JoyBell C.

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

Taylor Swift

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

Albert Einstein

We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

Eleanor Roosevelt

Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.

Thomas Pynchon

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

E.E. Cummings

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

Mark Twain

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Kahlil Gibran

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Mark Twain

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!

C.J. Cherryh

Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

Mae West

Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

Charlie Chaplin

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

Groucho Marx

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

Ernest Hemingway

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

Lois Lowry

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Zadie Smith

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Mahatma Gandhi

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.

Edward Abbey

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Mark Twain

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

Steve Maraboli

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

H.L. Mencken

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

Oprah Winfrey

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Oscar Wilde

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Abraham Lincoln

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

Noam Chomsky

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

Dr. Seuss

Why do people say grow some balls? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.

Sheng Wang

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Rachel Carson

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

Virginia Woolf

Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.

Judy Blume

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

C.S. Lewis

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Socrates

We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

Philip Pullman

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Nelson Mandela

We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

Marilyn Monroe

Freedom lies in being bold.

Robert Frost

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is

Ellen DeGeneres

The future depends on what you do today.

Mahatma Gandhi

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

Warsan Shire

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.

Bob Newhart

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Mae West

What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.

Albert Einstein

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Frida Kahlo

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.

Marvin Bell

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

Daphne du Maurier

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

C.S. Lewis

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

Alex Haley

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

John Grisham

One must dare to be happy.

Gertrude Stein

Humor is reason gone mad.

Groucho Marx

Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Ben Okri

The mind I love must have wild places.

Katherine Mansfield

Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.

Patricia Cornwell

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Frank Zappa

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Harlan Ellison

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The only truth is music.

Jack Kerouac

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Anaïs Nin

No good deed goes unpunished.

Oscar Wilde

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

Haruki Murakami

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

C.S. Lewis

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.

Nelson DeMille

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry

Emily Dickinson

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.

Phyllis McGinley

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

Terry Pratchett

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Gautama Buddha

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

Maya Angelou

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

C. G. Jung

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success

Oscar Wilde

It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl.

Cassandra Clare

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

Stephen Fry

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

William S. Burroughs

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

Fred Rogers

Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.

E.E. Cummings

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

Nicholson Baker

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Norman Vincent Peale

She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.

Kate Chopin

I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.

Agostinho da Silva

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Marianne Moore

I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

Karen Blixen

if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

Johnny Depp

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Anthony Burgess

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Audrey Hepburn

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

Maya Angelou

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Chuck Palahniuk

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Coco Chanel

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Woody Allen

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

Oscar Wilde

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Kahlil Gibran

Be awesome! Be a book nut!

Dr. Seuss

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Joseph Joubert

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

Ann Richards

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Leo Tolstoy

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Maya Angelou

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure they can be turned into wisdom.

Cat Cora

I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity.

C.S. Lewis

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

Albert Einstein

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Oscar Wilde

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

John Henry Newman

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

John Lennon

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.

Charles Bukowski

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

W.B. Yeats

We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.

C. JoyBell C.

I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Carl Sandburg

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Mark Twain

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

Hayley Williams

The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.

Woody Allen

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

Ludwig van Beethoven

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

Rodney Dangerfield

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Will Rogers

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Isaac Asimov

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

Harvey Pekar

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Hunter S. Thompson

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

Kathleen Winsor

I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B. Yeats

There is a saying in Tibetan,'ragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

Dalai Lama XIV

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong

John Lennon

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

Stephen King

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.

Chris Abani

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Michel de Montaigne

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

Lorraine Hansberry

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Aldous Huxley

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

Tim O'Brien

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

Susan Faludi

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama XIV

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Amelia Earhart

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

Gautama Buddha

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

Jonathan Kellerman

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no such thing as a broken family. Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will always be with you

C. JoyBell C.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Nora Roberts

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Sue Grafton

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

Jalaluddin Rumi

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.

C. JoyBell C.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

George Carlin

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Albert Camus

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity

Albert Einstein

I'm glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.

Dr. Seuss

Love can make even nice people do awful things.

Jude Deveraux

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

Albert Einstein

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Bruce Lee

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Gertrude Stein

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Matt Groening

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney Company

If you want to be happy, be.

Leo Tolstoy

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Mae West

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Mother Teresa

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view

Allen Ginsberg

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

G. K. Chesterton

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Stanley Fish

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

Vladimir Nabokov

A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.

Ruth Westheimer

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

Bram Stoker

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Aisha Tyler

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Maya Angelou

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

Maya Angelou

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles

Audrey Hepburn

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Rita Mae Brown

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Samuel Beckett

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

Henry David Thoreau

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

Edith Sitwell

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

Edith Sitwell

In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.

Coco Chanel

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Jack Kerouac

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

Norman Rush

We are surrounded by story.

Alice McDermott

If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!

Adolf Hitler

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Amy Tan

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Groucho Marx

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

Judy Blume

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

D.H. Lawrence

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

Mahatma Gandhi

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Albert Einstein

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Steve Jobs

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Nelson Mandela

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Henry Ford

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Angelina Jolie

I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

Rihanna

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Rihanna

Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.

A. R. Rahman

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

Confucius

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

Hillary Clinton

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

Idries Shah

The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.

Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.

Jay-Z

I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.

Angelina Jolie

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Bill Gates

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they've seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music.

Johnny Depp

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Charlie Chaplin

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Elon Musk

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Elinor Glyn

If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Ernest Hemingway

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Mark Zuckerberg

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Michael Jackson

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

Will Smith

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Bill Gates

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

Jay-Z

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Barack Obama

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Steve Jobs

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

George Washington

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

George Carlin

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family

Mother Teresa

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Robert Frost

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

God is everywhere.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

All of us do not have equal talent. But , all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

A. A. Milne

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

A. A. Milne

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

A. A. Milne

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

A. A. Milne

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

A. A. Milne

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

A. A. Milne

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

A. A. Milne

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

A. A. Milne

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.

A. A. Milne

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

A. A. Milne

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

A. A. Milne

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

A. A. Milne

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.

A. A. Milne

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

A. A. Milne

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like What about lunch?

A. A. Milne

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

A. A. Milne

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

A. A. Milne

Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.

A. A. Milne

Think, think, think.

A. A. Milne

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

A. A. Milne

I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn't anymore.

A. A. Milne

We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see

A. A. Milne

Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.

A. A. Milne

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

A. A. Milne

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

A. A. Milne

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts.

A. A. Milne

It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.

A. R. Rahman

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.

A. R. Rahman

I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.

A. R. Rahman

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

A. R. Rahman

Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.

A. R. Rahman

I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.

A. R. Rahman

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

A. R. Rahman

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

A. R. Rahman

Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.

A. R. Rahman

I usually work on a film soundtrack for two years, turning in a song every few months, and that keeps my creative energy high, because I'm constantly rotating projects. The trick is to make sure I don't work too hard and get exhausted.

A. R. Rahman

My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.

A. R. Rahman

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

A. R. Rahman

I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.

A. R. Rahman

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

A. R. Rahman

When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.

A. R. Rahman

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

A. R. Rahman

Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.

A. R. Rahman

So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.

A. R. Rahman

I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.

A. R. Rahman

For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.

A. R. Rahman

A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.

A. R. Rahman

I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.

A. R. Rahman

After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.

A. R. Rahman

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.

A. R. Rahman

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

A. R. Rahman

The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.

A. R. Rahman

A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

A. R. Rahman

Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.

A. R. Rahman

I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

A. R. Rahman

That is life... to begin again when everything is lost!

A.J. Cronin

Every time I pass him he gives me the excommunication stare.

A.J. Cronin

Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us

A.J. Cronin

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

A.J. Cronin

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

A.J. Cronin

Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.

A.J. Cronin

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

A.J. Cronin

Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.

A.J. Cronin

You are very attractive. And your greatest charm is that you do not realise it!

A.J. Cronin

Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.

A.J. Cronin

Good artist copy. Great artist steal.

Pablo Picasso

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

A. A. Milne

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Eminem

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Eminem

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

Eminem

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

Eminem

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

Eminem

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Eminem

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

Eminem

I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.

Eminem

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Eminem

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

Eminem

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

Eminem

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Eminem

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else.

Eminem

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Eminem

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

Eminem

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Eminem

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

Eminem

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Eminem

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

Eminem

I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.

Eminem

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Eminem

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

Eminem

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

Eminem

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Eminem

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Eminem

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

Eminem

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

Eminem

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

Eminem

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

Eminem

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.

Eminem

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

Eminem

I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

Eminem

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Eminem

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

Eminem

I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

Eminem

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

Eminem

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

Eminem

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

Eminem

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

Eminem

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

Eminem

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

Eminem

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

Eminem

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Eminem

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

Eminem

Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!

Eminem

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Eminem

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

Eminem

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

Eminem

I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

Eminem

It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.

Eminem

The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

Eminem

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Abraham Lincoln

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Abraham Lincoln

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Eminem

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Abraham Lincoln

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Abraham Lincoln

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Abraham Lincoln

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Abraham Lincoln

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

Eminem

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Abraham Lincoln

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

Abraham Lincoln

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Abraham Lincoln

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Abraham Lincoln

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes a compliment.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Abraham Lincoln

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

Eminem

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Abraham Lincoln

There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.

Eminem

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Abraham Lincoln

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

Abraham Lincoln

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Abraham Lincoln

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Abraham Lincoln

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Abraham Lincoln

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

Abraham Lincoln

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Abraham Lincoln

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Abraham Lincoln

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Abraham Lincoln

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Abraham Lincoln

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Abraham Lincoln

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Abraham Lincoln

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

Abraham Lincoln

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Abraham Lincoln

The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Abraham Lincoln

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Abraham Lincoln

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.

Abraham Lincoln

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Abraham Lincoln

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Abraham Lincoln

For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Abraham Lincoln

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Abraham Lincoln

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Abraham Lincoln

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Abraham Lincoln

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Abraham Lincoln

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Abraham Lincoln

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Abraham Lincoln

Never regret what you don't write.

Abraham Lincoln

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

Abraham Lincoln

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Abraham Lincoln

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Abraham Lincoln

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Abraham Lincoln

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Abraham Lincoln

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

Abraham Lincoln

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Abraham Lincoln

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

Abraham Lincoln

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Abraham Lincoln

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

Abraham Lincoln

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Abraham Lincoln

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

Abraham Lincoln

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Abraham Lincoln

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Abraham Lincoln

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Abraham Lincoln

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Adolf Hitler

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

Adolf Hitler

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Abraham Lincoln

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

Adolf Hitler

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Adolf Hitler

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

Adolf Hitler

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Adolf Hitler

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

Adolf Hitler

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?

Adolf Hitler

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Adrienne Rich

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

Adrienne Rich

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

Adrienne Rich

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Abraham Lincoln

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

Adrienne Rich

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

Adrienne Rich

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Adrienne Rich

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Adrienne Rich

The moment of change is the only poem.

Adrienne Rich

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?

Adrienne Rich

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

Adrienne Rich

Life on the planet is born of woman.

Adrienne Rich

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

Adrienne Rich

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

Adrienne Rich

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

Adrienne Rich

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

Adrienne Rich

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Adrienne Rich

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

Adrienne Rich

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Agatha Christie

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.

Agatha Christie

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

Agatha Christie

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Agatha Christie

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Abraham Lincoln

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

Agatha Christie

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Agatha Christie

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

Agatha Christie

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

Agatha Christie

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

Agatha Christie

Very few of us are what we seem.

Agatha Christie

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

Agatha Christie

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Agatha Christie

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Agatha Christie

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Agatha Christie

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Abraham Lincoln

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Agatha Christie

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Agatha Christie

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Agatha Christie

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

Agatha Christie

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Agatha Christie

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

Agatha Christie

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

Agatha Christie

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

Agatha Christie

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Agatha Christie

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Agatha Christie

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Agatha Christie

Don’t feel satisfied with a party’s program: invent one better.

Agostinho da Silva

Don’t make too many plans for your life, so as not to ruin those it has in store for you.

Agostinho da Silva

For the philosopher there are never the blind who don’t want to see, there is always the blind who can’t see.

Agostinho da Silva

It is perhaps a sign of bondage to the phenomenal world, the terror and pain before the arrival of death, or the serene but saddened resignation with which the greeks made it a sweet sister of sleep; for the free spirit it should be, like sound and color, false, exterior and fleeting. And the higher we will rise the less we consider death as a riddle or a ghost, the more we look at it as a form within forms.

Agostinho da Silva

Man was not born to work, but to create.

Agostinho da Silva

The time has come to prepare ourselves for new voyages, for the casting off of moorings is at hand; and, although we know the cross is eternal in this world of ours, perhaps it best be substituted in the unfurling sails throughout the fleur-de-lis of the North of maps, with Queen Isabel’s Holy Spirit and the perfect Trinity. The woman is very close to Nature; she has the same enchantment and the same dangers.

Agostinho da Silva

Thoughts move without changing place.

Agostinho da Silva

To live is more important than to have lived; and life is only real life when we feel something different outside of us.

Agostinho da Silva

What is really traditional is the invention of the future.

Agostinho da Silva

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

Aisha Tyler

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

Agatha Christie

I think, like most gamers, I talk a good game.

Aisha Tyler

You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.

Aisha Tyler

The more people who come forward and talk about how much they love gaming, how much they talk about individuality and diversity, the more gamers of color that come out and gay gamers that come out and everybody talking about what they love - that's what the community has in common: a love of gaming.

Aisha Tyler

It's a thrill to star with such great actors like Kevin Bacon, Kelly Preston, and Garrett Hedlund.

Aisha Tyler

Bravery is the engine of change.

Aisha Tyler

People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.

Aisha Tyler

I went to private school for two years, then Aptos Middle School, and I finished at McAteer. Several of my classmates at those schools are my friends today.

Aisha Tyler

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Aisha Tyler

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

Aisha Tyler

There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

Aisha Tyler

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Agatha Christie

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

Aisha Tyler

I was this weird little bookish giant.

Aisha Tyler

I might not agree with myself in a year.

Aisha Tyler

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.

Aisha Tyler

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

Aisha Tyler

Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.

Aisha Tyler

I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.

Aisha Tyler

The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.

Aisha Tyler

I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.

Aisha Tyler

I really do know football.

Aisha Tyler

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Agatha Christie

I am absolutely a Giants fan and I'm a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.

Aisha Tyler

I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can't wait to get back. Can't wait to have some Timbits.

Aisha Tyler

I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.

Aisha Tyler

I like grown up comedy.

Aisha Tyler

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

Aisha Tyler

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

Aisha Tyler

So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.

Aisha Tyler

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

Aisha Tyler

I'm sure you can imagine it's pretty frustrating to have people talking about your private life who don't know anything about it.

Aisha Tyler

My husband and I met when I was a teenager, and I've been with him for more than half of my adult life.

Aisha Tyler

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

Agatha Christie

It's very hard when you love someone very much to also start to realize that maybe you want different things for your lives.

Aisha Tyler

Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie.

Aisha Tyler

One thing about creativity is, when you feel confident and respected, you're more likely to pitch more interesting stuff because you're not as precious with it. You feel like, 'This is going to land, and I'm going to be supported in this.'

Aisha Tyler

The whole principle of coming out is that everyone knows someone who's gay. The minute someone comes out, no one can be a bigot, because someone they love is gay.

Aisha Tyler

I feel if you believe in equality, you have to believe in it for everybody. And that's the way I've always lived my life.

Aisha Tyler

I wasn't mentally prepared to take care of them, I was focused on my career. And then when I got to be in my 40s and I thought about having kids, I wasn't able to have kids naturally. I don't regret it.

Aisha Tyler

Sunday is like this entertainment scrum for me, because I've only got a day, one day of fun. So I want to have brunch, and I want to see a movie, and I want to watch 'Game of Thrones,' and I'm trying to watch 'The Sopranos' from the beginning, and I want to play four hours of video games. So, it's, like, as regimented as my work life.

Aisha Tyler

I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.

Aisha Tyler

Not only was I the only black kid and the only poor kid, but my parents were transcendental meditation devotees, and I live in an ashram for a good portion of my childhood.

Aisha Tyler

If you look at shows like 'Def Comedy Jam' in its heyday, there were so many really funny, talented black comics that never would have gotten on that show because they just weren't doing comedy that fit that mold.

Aisha Tyler

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

Agatha Christie

The only way I was going to be funny was if I was myself, and either you liked it, or you didn't. Either you got on my train, or you didn't. Freeing myself of this idea that I had to fit a certain mold was when I was able to be my funniest.

Aisha Tyler

I remember leaving the first 'Matrix' movie feeling completely radicalized, completely changed. I think we all, from our ordinary lives, like to think about putting ourselves into these extraordinary situations and wonder how we'd respond.

Aisha Tyler

I see the first 'Bourne' movie as really kind of a fulcrum in changing the modern action film, where things are really gritty and really character-driven. Think about how the entire Bond franchise was completely radicalized by Bourne.

Aisha Tyler

I'm surrounded by geniuses, which is really not good for my own personal self-esteem!

Aisha Tyler

I didn't mind being in a school with a small African-American population. The African-American-community was very tight, and that was great. But I also wanted to interact with other types of folks.

Aisha Tyler

I tell jokes, chat with people, and make stuff.

Aisha Tyler

Standup comedy is inordinately difficult. If doing something else for a living will make you equally happy, choose that instead. I'm serious. Comedy is punishing.

Aisha Tyler

God, I mean I had so many people tell me, 'What you're doing doesn't work.' I used to have to get on stage and apologize for talking the way that I speak.

Aisha Tyler

Everybody has those stories that make them wince when they think about them silently. But as soon as you tell that story, it becomes a little bit less cringe-inducing.

Aisha Tyler

I love New Orleans. I did a movie there right before Katrina.

Aisha Tyler

And it is the child the one that must be considered the noble savage, spoiling her, mis-shaping her the least we possibly can.

Agostinho da Silva

I'd be plenty happy if I could keep playing scientists and cops for the rest of my career.

Aisha Tyler

I married my husband because I loved him, and I don't feel like there's anybody missing from our marriage, but when you think about this person that you love, and you think about what a wonderful thing it would be to bring another person like that into this world, I think that's the hardest part about all of it.

Aisha Tyler

I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.

Aisha Tyler

I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.

Aisha Tyler

I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to 'Talk Soup,' where I was writing and performing for TV.

Aisha Tyler

I have a whole 'Halo' corner in my house. One time, when I went to Bungie, they gave me this awesome 'Halo: Reach' backpack. Usually, when you get stuff like that, it either ends up in the garage or going to charity. But I walk around with that 'Halo: Reach' backpack all the time, and I drink out of my 'Halo: Reach' bottle every day.

Aisha Tyler

My goal is definitely to direct features - action movies, that's my favorite genre. So I would love to do the 'Halo' movie.

Aisha Tyler

You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.

Aisha Tyler

I can't control what's fair and unfair. I can't control the nature of the business or the nature of society or the nature of the world, but what I can control is how I choose to see the world and what I choose to put back into it.

Aisha Tyler

My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.

Aisha Tyler

Be faithful to all because all are you.

Agostinho da Silva

I used to worry that if I wasn't having a dynamic life, then I wouldn't have anything to talk about.

Aisha Tyler

I think the thing I fear most in life is waking up one day and not feeling challenge - feeling ambivalent or glib about what I have to do that day.

Aisha Tyler

As a comedian, it really gelled when I started doing standup. Because standup is so much about bravery, especially in the early days. There is no doubt that it is going to go terribly for you over and over and over again. But you cannot get funny without bombing.

Aisha Tyler

There's a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.

Aisha Tyler

For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband.

Aisha Tyler

I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are, embraces everything about you, and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or without children - it's honestly immaterial to building a life with someone that you love fully.

Aisha Tyler

I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.

Aisha Tyler

I think people sleepwalk through their lives, and for me, I wanted to embrace everything. And that meant the agonizing pain and the transcendence, and you can't have one without the other.

Aisha Tyler

I really love being busy because I am - feel like I am at my best when I am busy.

Aisha Tyler

I was like, 'I want us to stop using that term. I'm not a 'girl gamer.' I'm just a gamer.' The reasons I love gaming are the same reasons everyone loves gaming.

Aisha Tyler

Believing, thus, that man is born good, which means on my regard that he is born a brother to the world, not its owner and destroyer, I think that education has not been much else than the system through which this fraternity is transformed in domination.

Agostinho da Silva

Comedy's really about not being afraid to look terrible, look ugly, look silly, make fun of yourself. And that's something that women are just not socialized to do. But more women are doing it, and more women have examples of women doing it brilliantly.

Aisha Tyler

I love women, and I have a lot of really close girlfriends, but I'm not one of those women who's like, 'Ew - that's boy stuff.'

Aisha Tyler

I love fashion, and I love how it makes me feel, but it doesn't rule my life.

Aisha Tyler

I really try to make smart choices about my fashion and really live a life on the carpet that's the same as the life I live normally.

Aisha Tyler

In my life and my work, I really try to be just fully myself.

Aisha Tyler

I don't think of myself as a role model, but I do feel like, for women out there who are trying to figure out who they are, the most important choice to make is to live a life that's true to who you are inside. And let your ideas and your heart and your mind drive your fashion choices.

Aisha Tyler

The City gets more and more beautiful every time I come home.

Aisha Tyler

I'm a think gamer with twitch tendencies.

Aisha Tyler

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

Alan Moore

I'm not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems with it. And on the surface you can see that the Internet could go an awful long way to educating, enlightening, informing and connecting the world.

Alan Moore

The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Moore

I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

Alan Moore

There's nothing that could get me interested in Hollywood again. And, increasingly, there's nothing that could get me interested in the American comics industry again.

Alan Moore

Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces.

Alan Moore

Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.

Alan Moore

Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.

Alan Moore

I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype.

Alan Moore

I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.

Alan Moore

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.

Alan Moore

I love films that are made with almost no budget.

Alan Moore

I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination.

Alan Moore

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

Alan Moore

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

Alan Moore

There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future.

Alan Moore

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

Alan Moore

I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.

Alan Moore

I've got nothing against America, but I went over there a couple of times and didn't really like it. I mean, not that I like England that much, but it's somewhere to live.

Alan Moore

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

Alan Moore

Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.

Alan Moore

War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are never going to look back and think, 'He started a lot of wars; what a great leader he was!' That's not the way it works. God knows how many more of these things we're going to need before it starts to sink in.

Alan Moore

It's not my job to tell people what to think. If I can actually in some way help the readers' own creative thinking, then that's got to be to everybody's benefit.

Alan Moore

When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of an idea about the beginning, and although I do write the story one sentence at a time, when I'm thinking it up, I'm thinking it up all at once.

Alan Moore

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

Alan Moore

A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.

Alan Moore

I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.

Alan Moore

There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.

Alan Moore

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

Alan Moore

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Alan Moore

I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.

Alan Moore

When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.

Alan Moore

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.

Alan Moore

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

Alan Moore

Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.

Alan Moore

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

Alan Moore

I think there's always been a traditionally apocalyptic side to British science fiction, from H.G. Wells onwards. I mean, most of Wells' stories are potentially apocalyptic in some sense or another.

Alan Moore

I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature. Both would seem equally interesting.

Alan Moore

Everything you've ever read of mine is first-draft. This is one of the peculiarities of the comics field. By the time you're working on chapter three of your masterwork, chapter one is already in print. You can't go back and suddenly decide to make this character a woman, or have this one fall out of a window.

Alan Moore

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

Alan Moore

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

Alan Moore

I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.

Alan Moore

I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that offends other philosophers; they think he's not taking things seriously, but he comes up with some marvellous puns. Why shouldn't you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind?

Alan Moore

You've got to be able to pay your bills; otherwise, you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together.

Alan Moore

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

Alan Moore

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

Alan Moore

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

Alan Moore

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

Alan Moore

When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.

Alan Moore

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

Alan Moore

My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories.

Alan Moore

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan W. Watts

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan W. Watts

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Alan W. Watts

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan W. Watts

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Alan W. Watts

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Alan W. Watts

Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.

Alan Moore

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Albert Camus

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Albert Camus

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Albert Camus

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

Albert Camus

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Albert Camus

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Albert Camus

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Albert Camus

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.

Alan Moore

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Albert Camus

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Albert Camus

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Albert Camus

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Albert Camus

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Albert Camus

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Albert Camus

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Albert Camus

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Albert Camus

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Albert Camus

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

Alan Moore

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Albert Camus

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Albert Camus

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Albert Camus

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Albert Camus

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Albert Camus

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Albert Camus

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Albert Camus

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Albert Camus

War is a perversion of sex.

Alan Moore

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Albert Camus

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Albert Camus

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Albert Camus

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

Albert Camus

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Albert Camus

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Albert Camus

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Albert Camus

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Albert Camus

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Albert Camus

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Albert Camus

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Albert Camus

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Albert Camus

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Albert Camus

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Albert Camus

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Albert Camus

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Albert Camus

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Albert Camus

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Albert Camus

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

Albert Camus

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Albert Camus

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Albert Camus

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Albert Camus

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Albert Camus

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Albert Camus

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Albert Camus

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Albert Camus

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Albert Camus

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

Albert Camus

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Albert Camus

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Albert Camus

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Albert Camus

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Albert Camus

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Albert Camus

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Albert Camus

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

Albert Camus

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Albert Camus

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

Albert Camus

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Albert Camus

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Albert Camus

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Albert Camus

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Albert Camus

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

Albert Camus

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

Albert Camus

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

Albert Camus

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Albert Camus

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Albert Camus

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Albert Einstein

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Albert Camus

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Albert Einstein

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Albert Camus

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Albert Einstein

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Albert Einstein

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Albert Einstein

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Albert Einstein

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Albert Einstein

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Albert Camus

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Albert Einstein

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Albert Einstein

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Albert Einstein

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Albert Einstein

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Albert Einstein

Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Albert Camus

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Albert Einstein

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Albert Einstein

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Albert Einstein

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Albert Camus

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Albert Einstein

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Albert Einstein

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Albert Einstein

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Albert Einstein

God does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

Albert Einstein

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Albert Einstein

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Albert Einstein

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Albert Einstein

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Albert Einstein

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

Albert Einstein

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Albert Einstein

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Albert Einstein

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Albert Einstein

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Albert Einstein

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Albert Einstein

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Albert Einstein

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

God always takes the simplest way.

Albert Einstein

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Albert Einstein

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Albert Einstein

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Albert Einstein

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Albert Einstein

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Albert Einstein

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Albert Einstein

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Albert Einstein

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Albert Einstein

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Albert Einstein

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Albert Einstein

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

Albert Einstein

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Albert Einstein

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Albert Schweitzer

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Albert Schweitzer

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Albert Schweitzer

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitzer

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Albert Schweitzer

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Albert Schweitzer

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

Albert Schweitzer

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

Albert Schweitzer

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Albert Schweitzer

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Albert Schweitzer

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitzer

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Albert Schweitzer

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Albert Schweitzer

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Albert Schweitzer

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Albert Schweitzer

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Albert Schweitzer

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Albert Schweitzer

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Albert Schweitzer

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Albert Einstein

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Albert Schweitzer

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Albert Schweitzer

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Albert Schweitzer

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Albert Schweitzer

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Albert Schweitzer

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

My life is my argument.

Albert Schweitzer

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Albert Schweitzer

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Albert Schweitzer

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Albert Einstein

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Albert Schweitzer

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Albert Schweitzer

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

Albert Schweitzer

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxley

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Aldous Huxley

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Aldous Huxley

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Aldous Huxley

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Aldous Huxley

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Aldous Huxley

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Aldous Huxley

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Aldous Huxley

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Aldous Huxley

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Aldous Huxley

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Aldous Huxley

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Aldous Huxley

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Aldous Huxley

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Aldous Huxley

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Aldous Huxley

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Aldous Huxley

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Aldous Huxley

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Aldous Huxley

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Aldous Huxley

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Aldous Huxley

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Aldous Huxley

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Aldous Huxley

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Aldous Huxley

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Aldous Huxley

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxley

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Aldous Huxley

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Aldous Huxley

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Aldous Huxley

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Aldous Huxley

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Aldous Huxley

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Aldous Huxley

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Aldous Huxley

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Aldous Huxley

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Aldous Huxley

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Aldous Huxley

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Aldous Huxley

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Aldous Huxley

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Aldous Huxley

The proper study of mankind is books.

Aldous Huxley

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Aldous Huxley

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Aldous Huxley

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Aldous Huxley

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Aldous Huxley

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Aldous Huxley

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Aldous Huxley

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Aldous Huxley

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Aldous Huxley

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Aldous Huxley

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Aldous Huxley

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Aldous Huxley

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Aldous Huxley

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Aldous Huxley

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Aldous Huxley

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

Aldous Huxley

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Aldous Huxley

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Aldous Huxley

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

Aldous Huxley

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Aldous Huxley

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Aldous Huxley

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Aldous Huxley

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Alex Haley

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

Alex Haley

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

Alex Haley

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

Alex Haley

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

Alex Haley

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Alex Haley

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

Alex Haley

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

Alex Haley

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Aldous Huxley

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Alexander Pope

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Alexander Pope

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Alexander Pope

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Alexander Pope

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Alexander Pope

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Alexander Pope

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Alexander Pope

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Alexander Pope

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

Alexander Pope

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Aldous Huxley

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Alexander Pope

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

Alexander Pope

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Alexander Pope

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Alexander Pope

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Alexander Pope

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Alexander Pope

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Alexander Pope

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Aldous Huxley

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Alexander Pope

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Alexander Pope

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Alexander Pope

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

Alexander Pope

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Alexander Pope

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Alexander Pope

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Alexander Pope

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Alexander Pope

Never find fault with the absent.

Alexander Pope

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Alexander Pope

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Alexander Pope

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Alexander Pope

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Alexander Pope

Passions are the gales of life.

Alexander Pope

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

Angelina Jolie

I don't believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

Angelina Jolie

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

Angelina Jolie

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Gustave Flaubert

A strong person is not the person who throws his adversaries to the ground. A strong person is the person who contains himself when he is angry. [Al-Bukhari Book 47 No. 47.3.12]

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Barack Obama

All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action [Last Sermon]

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Wealth is not from a lot of money. Wealth is the independence of the self. [Riyadh-as-Saliheen volume 4, hadith number 513]

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

Alexander Pope

Leave what gives you doubt for what gives you no doubt [Riyadh-as-Saliheen 593]

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Allah is kind and loves kindness in every matter. [Riyadh-as-Saliheen volume 4, hadith number 633]

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Do not think little of anything which is right, even just showing your brother a cheerful face. [Riyadh-as-Saliheen volume 4, hadith number 694]

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Allah will not be merciful to those who are not merciful to people. [Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol. 9, No.473]

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Beware of envy, for it consumes good deeds just as fire consumes wood or grass [Sunan Abu Dawud 4903]

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Richness does not lie in the abundance of wealth, but richness is the richness of soul(heart, self). [Sahih Muslim 1051]

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Every act of kindness is a charity. [Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 231]

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Whenever there is modesty in a thing, it adorns it. Whenever there is is outrage in a thing, it debases it. [Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 601]

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Order is heaven's first law.

Alexander Pope

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Alexander Pope

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Alexander Pope

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Alexander Pope

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Alexander Pope

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Alexander Pope

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Alexander Pope

We accept the love we think we deserve.

Stephen Chbosky

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Andre Gide

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Bruce Lee

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Bruce Lee

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Bruce Lee

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Bruce Lee

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Bruce Lee

Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Bruce Lee

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Bruce Lee

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Bruce Lee

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Bruce Lee

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Bruce Lee

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Bruce Lee

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.

Bruce Lee

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Bruce Lee

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Bruce Lee

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Bruce Lee

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Bruce Lee

The doubters said, "Man can not fly", the doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try", and finally soared in the morning glow while non-believers watched from below.

Bruce Lee

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Bruce Lee

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.

Bruce Lee

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

Bruce Lee

Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Bruce Lee

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Bruce Lee

Don't lose your temper; you have only got one.

Oscar Wilde

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.

Aristotle

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

Thomas Jefferson

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Alan W. Watts

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

Confucius

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.

John Grisham

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

Lao Tzu

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Stephen King

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.

Helen Keller

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

Pablo Picasso

Poets are damned... but see with the eyes of angels.

Allen Ginsberg

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

Helen Keller

Don't become a philosopher before you become rich!

Shah Rukh Khan

Walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone.

Shah Rukh Khan

I`d rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else.

Shah Rukh Khan

There's no such thing as 'normal'. That's just another word for lifeless. Madness (of the particularly nice/romantic kind) is an absolute prerequisite to a happy and successful life.

Shah Rukh Khan

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Bruce Lee

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Bruce Lee

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Bruce Lee

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

Bruce Lee

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Bruce Lee

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!

Bruce Lee

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Bruce Lee

As you think, so shall you become.

Bruce Lee

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Steve Jobs

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Steve Jobs

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.

Steve Jobs

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Steve Jobs

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

Steve Jobs

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

Steve Jobs

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Steve Jobs

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Adolf Hitler

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Adolf Hitler

If you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.

Adolf Hitler

And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.

Adolf Hitler

Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.

Adolf Hitler

Think Thousand times before taking a decision But - After taking decison never turn back even if you get Thousand difficulties!!

Adolf Hitler

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

Adolf Hitler

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

Adolf Hitler

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Bruce Lee

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

Bruce Lee

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Bruce Lee

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.

Bruce Lee

To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

Bruce Lee

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

Bruce Lee

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.

Bruce Lee

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

Bruce Lee

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Bruce Lee

The More we value things, the less we value ourselves

Bruce Lee

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Bruce Lee

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Bruce Lee

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

Bruce Lee

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.

Bruce Lee

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

Hell is that state where one has ceased to hope.

A.J. Cronin

Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them.

A.J. Cronin

...happiness (is) an inner state, wholly spiritual, independent... of worldly possession.

A.J. Cronin

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

Adolf Hitler

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

Adolf Hitler

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Adolf Hitler

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated..

Confucius

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

Confucius

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Confucius

The funniest people are the saddest ones.

Confucius

Study the past if you would define the future.

Confucius

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Confucius

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

Bruce Lee

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

Bruce Lee

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Bruce Lee

Boards don't hit back.

Bruce Lee

Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

Bruce Lee

Real living is living for others.

Bruce Lee

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

Stephen Fry

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what.

Stephen Fry

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Stephen Fry

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

Stephen Fry

The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no.

Stephen Fry

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

Stephen Fry

I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Stephen Fry

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.

Stephen Fry

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

Stephen Fry

We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.

Stephen Fry

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You see, but you do not observe.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone.

Lauren Conrad

Boys are like purses. You're always gonna have that one boy that you're always comfortable with and you know you'll always kind of like. That's your purse that you wear everywhere. Then you have that gorgeous bag that you want everyone to see you with but the gorgeous bag is usually an asshole or costs a lot of money. Then you have those other purses that you really like but you really don't want to be seen with.

Lauren Conrad

A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.

Lauren Conrad

When you are looking to meet someone, you are looking to settle. Because you are not looking for someone, you are looking for anyone.

Lauren Conrad

The only way to belong is to act like you belong. Or to not give a shit whether you belong or not.

Lauren Conrad

Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.

Lauren Conrad

It's hard to tell people who they should hang out with and who they shouldn't, especially if they aren't ready to hear that. You have to let your friends make their own mistakes sometimes. You can't protect them from everything, or else they'll never learn.

Lauren Conrad

Tomorrow will be better.

Lauren Conrad

You never make the same mistake twice. The second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake, it is a choice.

Lauren Conrad

Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life.

Lauren Conrad

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Norman Vincent Peale

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

Norman Vincent Peale

The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Norman Vincent Peale

The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Norman Vincent Peale

When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

It's always too soon to quit!

Norman Vincent Peale

Never, never, never give in!

Winston S. Churchill

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Nelson Mandela

I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in the Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good.

Norman Vincent Peale

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Katharine Hepburn

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Katharine Hepburn

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Norman Vincent Peale

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Katharine Hepburn

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Bill Gates

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

Bill Gates

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Bill Gates

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

Bill Gates

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...

Bill Gates

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Bill Gates

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

Bill Gates

Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.

Bill Gates

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Bill Gates

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

Bill Gates

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past.

Bill Gates

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Bill Gates

So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.

Bill Gates

Well, Steve [Jobs]... I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbour named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.

Bill Gates

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Bill Gates

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

Julia Child

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

Julia Child

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

Julia Child

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

Julia Child

This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!

Julia Child

I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

Julia Child

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

Julia Child

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

Julia Child

Life itself is the proper binge.

Julia Child

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

Julia Child

People who love to eat are always the best people.

Julia Child

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

Julia Child

You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life.

Julia Child