The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Max Beerbohm

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

P. J. O'Rourke

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Ronald Reagan

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Samuel Smiles

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Henry David Thoreau

Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Charles Lazarus

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Sir Richard Steele

Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification.xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes

J.K. Rowling

Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

Sir Walter Raleigh

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

James Carville