You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Thomas Hardy

Novels are longer than life.

Natalie Clifford Barney

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

Sharon Shinn

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

George Eliot

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rou? to retire upon.

Thomas Moore

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Orway Tead

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Octavio Paz

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Thornton Wilder

He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step.

Ann Brashares

Skill makes love unending.

Ovid

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

Eliel Saarinen, "Time", July 2,