The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

Neil Gaiman

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

Livy

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.

Paul Graham

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

Mark Wahlberg

The love of one

Pau (Pablo) Casals

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

Jacob Bronowski

There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -Two Owls and a Hen,Four Larks and a Wren,Have all built their nests in my beard!'

Edward Lear, Book of Nonsense

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Albert Pike

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...

Neil Gaiman

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.

Glenn Frey

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

Sarah McLachlan

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.

Chad Harbach