I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.

Dag Hammarskjold

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

William Wordsworth

love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.

Nora Roberts

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

Jonathan Sacks

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Mae West

I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning.

Mike Wallace

Un archeologo è il miglior marito che una donna possa avere: più lei diventa vecchia, più lui s'interessa a lei.

Agatha Christie

Logic is like the sword

Samuel Butler, Notebooks

The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Geoffrey Gaberino

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

J.B.S. Haldane

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Wilson Mizner