Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

Karl Kraus

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Olympia Brown

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

George Bernard Shaw

There is always room at the top.

Daniel Webster

I still pray but it's something automatic, and I'm not even sure I still believe in it... Because I've suffered, and God didn't listen to my prayers. because many times in my life I have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being

Paulo Coelho

Moving on, starting to change perceptions and way of living after living problems is a sign of maturity, because that person understands the situation he or she is facing.

Vinh Khanh Huynh

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

Alice Sebold

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

Steven Wright

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

John Berger

Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?

Kanye West

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing: I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have l

Abraham Lincoln

Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.

Charles Francis Richter