Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

Richard M. DeVos

Panic, fear, worry, doubt, negativity ... words not recognized by Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Theophile Gautier

It's not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities.

Kristin Armstrong

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

Stanislaw Lem

Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress reliever.

Besa Kosova

It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without knowing that they are common to all the rest of the species

Samuel Johnson

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Freda Adler

I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

Edward Bond

We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.

Henry Reed