Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.

Jean Francois Regnard

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

Umberto Eco

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that.

Source Unknown

Everything in life is luck.

Donald Trump

I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write.

James Rollins

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Eugenio Montale

The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.

Christopher Monckton

When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.

Jennie Garth

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

Jim Wallis

But a whole bottle was what made me feel dead inside. And it worked, all the days stress was gone and I was able to live without the gigantic knot in my stomach. Without the boulders weighing down my shoulders.

Holly Hood

I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims.

Gio Gonzalez

Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Sophocles