Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

William Sanderson

God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Would you like a cough drop Dolores?

J.K. Rowling

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Philip Pullman

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

Ismail Haniyeh

Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

Milan Kundera

I love watching people's dreams come true.

Jessica Simpson

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

Giacomo Leopardi

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Thomas Alva Edison

When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!

Georges Bernanos

One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.

Nadia Comaneci