Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

Hugh Miller

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

William W. Purkey

Real life seems to have no plots.

Ivy Compton Burnett

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

Clarence Clemons

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Thomas J. Watson

Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

Hu Shih

The truth. Dumbledore sighed. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

J.K. Rowling

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

Roland Barthes

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

Margaret Spellings

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Peter Conrad

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

Kate O'Brien

I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.

Katy Perry