When we die and go to Heaven, our Maker is not going to say, Why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? The only thing we're going to be asked at that precious moment is Why didn't you become you?

Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.

Dorothy Sarnoff

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Fannie Lou Hamer

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings and yet depend upon the charity of a flower for life. I will be as the firefly and my light will brighten the world.

Og Mandino

Wise men learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Johann von Goethe

What was this dream we had, a dream of music, Music that rose from the opening earth like magic And shook its beauty upon us and died away? The long cold streets extend once more before us. The red sun drops, the walls grow grey.

Conrad Aiken

Don't be tempted to break momentum—work through it.

Lorii Myers

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

David Bowie

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Kin Hubbard

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Washington Irving

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

Peter Ustinov