If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Jean Cocteau

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

Source Unknown

I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.

Madeleine L'Engle

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

Shelby Foote

As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.

Ryan Seacrest

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.

Samuel Johnson

It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.

Brendon Urie

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

James Russell Lowell

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Samuel Johnson

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

Michael Fish

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

Thomas a Kempis