Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there -- or failing to get there.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.

Blaise Pascal

This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

Ralph Waldo Trine

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

Richard Cobden

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Leonardo DaVinci

Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.

Shahrukh Khan

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over

Ernest Hemingway

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Vladimir Nabokov

Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

Gary Bauer

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Wilson Mizner

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot

Mark Twain

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

John Cusack

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

C.S. Lewis