Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

I came to the place of my birth and cried, The friends of my youth, where are they? And echo answered, Where are they?

Arabic Proverb

Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.

Seth Lloyd

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Henry Ford

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Letter, Ja

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

Terry Pratchett

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Fran Lebowitz

I love to make music and stay grounded.

Annie Lennox

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

George Whitefield

The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not?

Oscar Wilde

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

Gerard De Nerval

Remarks are not literature.

Gertrude Stein