Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.

John Donne

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

Mark Twain

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

Francis Quarles

Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the pain and shame in her soul.

Leo Tolstoy

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

Bob Brown

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

Stanislav Grof

There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation alter nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again.

Camille Anna Paglia

What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.

Peter Deunov

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

John Bates Clark

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

Bubba Watson

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Mark Twain