Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

Graham Taylor

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Luther Burbank

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

Meister Eckhart

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles, in The Third Man 1

Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'

Buddy Guy

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

Vera Brittain

I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.

Siouxsie Sioux

I find the business world hard.

Haile Gebrselassie

With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.

Sean Paul

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

Robert Rodriguez