Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved

Let Love Rule

Lenny Kravitz

That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war.' Then, his face grave, 'There they shot my father. My mother. My brother-in-law and now my sister.' 'What barbarians,' Robert Jordan said. How many times had he heard this? How many times had he watched people say it with difficulty? How many times had he seen their eyes fill and their throats harden with the difficulty of saying my father, or my brother, or my mother, or my sister? He could not remember how many times he heard them mention their dead in this way. Nearly always they spoke as this boy did now; suddenly and apropos of the mention of the town and always you said, 'What barbarians.

Ernest Hemingway

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state.

Jane Austen

I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.

Christine Feehan

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

John Updike

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

Marcus Valerius Martial

The coward says in his heart There is no love. Because, standing in the shadows of the big, grand, and powerful existence of love, his small spirit is left feeling even smaller and less significant. And so he chooses to deny the existence of love altogether. Because he is too small to have it.

C. JoyBell C.

We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Thomas Jefferson

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Vernon Howard

Cosmic Ordering is a licence to print money.

Stephen Richards

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Bill Gates

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Milton Friedman