It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Terry Pratchett

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent -- war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

Susan Sontag

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

Rick Pitino

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

Laurel Clark

Sometimes we are scared of our own shadow, and our imaginations get the best of us.

James Dye

Nature does not give to those who will not spend...

R.J. Baughan

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.

Ray Dalio

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

Arnold J. Toynbee

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Publilius Syrus

Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.

Muqtada al Sadr