A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.

Freya Stark

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.

Jason Mraz

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.

John Cusack

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Michel de Montaigne

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.

E.L. Konigsburg

Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.

Robert Sternberg

Love does not only need a taste, but it also needs a present.

Stebby Julionatan

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

So shines a good deed in a weary world.

William Shakespeare

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning