Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Alexander Hamilton

Because tomorrow, the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide may bring.

Chuck Noland

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.

Rod Blagojevich

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Epictetus

In vain a zealous evangelist with a fely hat and flowing tie threads his way through the crowd, crying without cease: 'God is great and good. Come unto Him.' On the contrary, they all make haste toward some trivial objective that seems of more immediate interest than God.

Albert Camus

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

Alice Walker

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

Lin Yutang

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

Samantha Morton

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

Abdoulaye Wade

An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.

Jeff Vandermeer

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Robert Louis Stevenson