If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.

Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

John Green

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

Henry Rollins

A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of the politics.

Samuel Himmel

My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.

Jimmy Fallon

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

Carlo Collodi

No matter what the cause, God is only as willing as you are.

Steve Maraboli

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Pablo Picasso

And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue they hate the lonesome ones.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Voltaire

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Oliver Goldsmith