While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Samuel Smiles

We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reacher, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.

Alberto Manguel

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Igor Stravinsky

If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.

Shelley Long

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

Princess of Wales Diana

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.

Samuel Johnson

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Confucius

I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.

Andy Murray

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

Andrew Motion

Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others.

Gladys Taber

Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.

Jim Ryun