Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

Carrie-Anne Moss

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts

Aristotle

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Abraham Lincoln

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Orison Swett Marden

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Ambrose Bierce

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

Garry Kasparov

If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.

Alyson Richman

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

Suzanne Finnamore

The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.

Kin Hubbard

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

William Howard Taft