Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it

George Orwell

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.

Rand Paul

A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it.

Haruki Murakami

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

Lydia Maria Child

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

Julius Erving

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!

Sir Walter Raleigh

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

L. Ron Hubbard

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.

Fred A. Allen