I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

Marilyn Monroe

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.

Angus Wilson

The simplest science book is over my head.

James Merrill

It is criminal to steal a purse,daring to steal a fortune,a mark of greatness to steal a crown.The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Friedrich von Schiller

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

Trevor Dunn

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

Neil Gaiman

Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.

Kader Abdolah

The original story, whatever it was, was told to those who forgot some details and substituted others. The original is long lost in the restorations. They have had the composer accompanied by a gifted sister, who, the inflexible record shows, died years before the song was written. They have seated him at the prim old spindle-legged mahogany desk in the hall at Federal Hill and had him dash it off in the frenzy of inspiration. Or they have followed him to the rocks of the old spring house, whither they have sent him, pencil in hand, and counted the frowns of agony with which he laboriously set down now a strain of melody and again a phrase of words. They have heard him trying it out with the deep booming bass voice of him who had never more than a weak but sweet light baritone. Every writer of it has himself for the hero and has described it as he would himself have acted it before the grand audience of posterity. These various stories cling about Federal Hill, the outgrowth of the human desire for contact with the vague figures of the past.

Young Ewing Allison, writing abo

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam