That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!

For this is Wisdom; to love, to liveTo take what fate, or the Gods may give.To ask no question, to make no prayer,To kiss the lips and caress the hair,Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flowTo have, -to hold -and -in time, -let go!

Laurence Hope

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Orison Swett Marden

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves

Jodi Picoult

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

Irving Babbitt

I've learned that you don't have to win first place to win.

Kim Zmeskal

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Bette Midler

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Michel de Montaigne

Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.

Christie Brinkley

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it . . . and it is all one.

M. F. K. Fisher, from her 1943 b

People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.

Paulo Coelho