The gratitude that you feel leads to faith in the abundance and with every resonance that radiates from your mind more strong feelings of faith start to reside in you.

What the hell is ? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain particularly instantaneous.

John Green

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

Noomi Rapace

Under the greenwood tree,Who loves to lie with meAnd tune his merry note,Unto the sweet bird's throat;Come hither, come hither, come hither.Here shall he seeNo enemyBut winter and rough weather.

William Shakespeare

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Barbara Tuchman

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy;The books that people talk about we never can recall;And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

Carolyn Wells, On Books

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Anthony Perkins

Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid.

Bill Condon

The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.

Sam Snead

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.

John Webster, White Devil (act V