Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out

Michel de Montaigne

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Norman Vincent Peale

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Jane Austen

In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch

Bertrand Russell

At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.

Heather O'Reilly

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

Thomas Aquinas

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

William Shenstone

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.

Michael Jordan

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Coco Chanel

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

Tommy Steele

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Dale Carnegie

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

Leo Tolstoy