Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations -- such is pleasure beyond compare.

Yoshida Kenko

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

Ian Botham

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

Mariah Carey

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood.

Albert Einstein

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can

Tom Clancy, Interview, "Time", J

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

Jim Palmer

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

It's natural. Nature is dark and light, birth and death. Everything and its opposite. And in nature there are predators and prey. The hunters and the hunted. The heartbreakers and the heartbroken. The beautiful thing is that Nature lets us choose which we want to be, most people never make the choice though because they don't even know they have it.

Lynn Weingarten

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Honore de Balzac