Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.

Louis Binstock

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

Jim Rohn

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Jean de la Bruyere

Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.

Siddharth Katragadda

Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.

Sir Edwin Arnold

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.

Theresa May

Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.

Cassandra Clare

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

William Cowper

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Vincent Van Gogh

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

Walter Lord

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

Stanislaw Lem

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust