The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Indira Gandhi

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Thomas Mann

Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.

Joyce Meyer

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

Andrew Wyeth

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

Ramakrishna

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

Paulo Coelho

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Gardening is not a rational act.

Margaret Atwood

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

Elizabeth Hardwick