Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

Henry David Thoreau

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Aeschylus

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

Katarina Witt

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

T. E. Lawrence

You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --

Victor Hugo

There are few situations in life that cannot be honourably settled, and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold, or by thrusting a despised antagonist over the edge of a precipice upon a dark night.

Ernest Bramah

It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting.

Source Unknown

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

Chris Rock

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Samuel Johnson

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land . . .

Harriet Tubman, In Harriet Tubma