You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish -- if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.

Janette Rallison

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Mark Twain

With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

Jeff Goodell

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Sir Arthur Eddington, "In the Na

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

Gregory Nunn

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Quentin Crisp

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Ansel Adams

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Sri Madhava

You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able.

Sanaya Roman

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Charles Franklin Kettering