....Then he felt quite ashamed, and hid his head under his wing; for he did not know what to do, he was so happy, and yet not at all proud. He had been persecuted and despised for his ugliness, and now he heard them say he was the most beautiful of all the birds. Even the elder-tree bent down its bows into the water before him, and the sun shone warm and bright. He would never became vain or conceited, and would always remembered how it felt to be despised and teased, and he was very sorry for all the creatures who are so treated merely because they are different from those around them. Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart,

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

Harold Ramis

But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.

John Green

People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.

Johann von Goethe

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

John Cheever

Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self interest.

Samuel Johnson

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Lord Chesterfield, Letter to his

I married beneath me; all women do.

Nancy Astor

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

Chuck Palahniuk

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

Burton Richter

Great minds think alike.

Anon.

In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

Abraham Lincoln

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Saint Francis de Sales