After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Alice Walker

So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.

William Faulkner

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Deepak Chopra

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

Orson Scott Card

The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

Alfred North Whitehead

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Robert Frost

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Oscar Wilde

New Domestic Animals. I want to have my lion and my eagle about me, that I may always have hints and premonitions concerning the amount of my strength or weakness. Must I look down on them today, and be afraid of them? And will the hour come once more when they will look up to me, and tremble?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

David G. Farragut, Battle of Mob

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

Paulo Coelho

The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard