Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.

Horace

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Charles de Montesquieu

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

David Herbert Lawrence

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.

Francoise Sagan

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

Paul Cezanne

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Sa'di

Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.

Kader Abdolah

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

Scott Turow

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

Erykah Badu

It's not always what we don't know that gets in our way; sometimes it's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

Steve Maraboli

Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

Alfred North Whitehead