As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

God has arranged strange ways for some of us to find him. Sometimes He brings us on long physical journeys; sometimes He leaves us at home and makes the journey internal. Yours has been both. You have gone a long way and struggled a great deal, but I can see from your eyes that it was not for nothing.

Abigail J. Hartman

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Albert Camus

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

Source Unknown

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

Camille Pissarro

I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.

Kylie Bax

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

Helen Thomas

Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.

William Shakespeare

Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd really like to go out with her.' But you can't. At least not until the old idea is finished.

Stephen King

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Malcolm Forbes

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Thomas Hardy

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

Ibrahim Babangida

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.

Rowan Atkinson