When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Konrad Lorenz

That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

William Wordsworth

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

Paulo Coelho

My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

Allanah Myles

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

Robert Falcon Scott

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

Roald Dahl

Beauty is the advertisement of the existence. Its purpose is to make you hold the existence tightly.

Mehmet Murat ildan

Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

Paulo Coelho

In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.

King Hussein I

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Carlos Santana

An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Ambrose Bierce

In the mind of an ordinary, 1 1 = 2; but, in the mind of an extraordinary, 1 1 = 10.

Joey Lawsin