Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

Stanislav Grof

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

Brittany Murphy

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

Gustav Mahler

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.

Toba Beta

In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Nig

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

Sherrod Brown

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is more discouraging than unappreciated sarcasm.

Source Unknown

All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

Kate Moss

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Abraham Lincoln

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

Robert Morgan

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

George H. Mead