I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of three thousand miles, rock-bound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for this country?

Daniel Webster

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

Frances Conroy

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.

Lope de Vega

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

William Shakespeare

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.

Marisa Tomei

When your intent and your actions are aligned, you are speaking directly to God.

Steve Maraboli

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

Sir Laurence Olivier

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Alfred North Whitehead

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

Homer Rice

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.

Tilopa