Contrary to what we usually believe . . . the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times--although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them.The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Marcus Aurelius

John Lennon said life was what happened while you made other plans. So was death.

Richard Castle

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's kisses for this? They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough.

Annette Curtis Klause

If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve

Benny Bellamacina

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Mary Wesley

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Plato

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Jib Fowles

Who can tell truth from falsehood any more?I say it, and you feel it in your hearts:no man or woman on this big small earth.How should our sages miss the mark of life,and our most skillful players lose the game?your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me:because all know, and no one understands.

E.E. Cummings

I'm not into business at all.

Freddie Mercury

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

Marc Andreessen

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Leonardo da Vinci