Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

Heinz R. Pagels

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

Bernard Joseph Saurin

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Denis Waitley

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle

Abraham Lincoln

The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.

Karolina Kurkova

A cemetery is the only place where people don't try to keep up with the Joneses.

Source Unknown

Jesters do often prove prophets.

William Shakespeare

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Toni Morrison

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

Will Smith

Music is what I love to do it's in my veins.

Demi Lovato

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Havelock Ellis