My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Amy Winehouse

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

John Irving

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.

Anthony Bourdain

Miki-san... do you truly want that person's dream to come true? Or is it that you want to be that person's savior for making that dream come true? If you're going to fulfill someone else's dream, that's the time when it's most important to be sure you know your own wish. The two might seem the same, but they're entirely different.

Magica Quartet

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'

Archie Panjabi

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

Alexander Pope

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

Samuel Johnson

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

John Cage

Posterity gives every man his true value.

Tacitus

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.

William Crashaw