The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Alva Edison

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

Samuel Johnson

If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps...

Paulo Coelho

I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic, books of all kinds reflecting every transient stage of my parents' interest, books readable and unreadable, books suitable for a child and books most emphatically not. Nothing was forbidden me. In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

C.S. Lewis

The businessman's religion and glory demand that he should make much money; therefore, like the Hindu widow, he suffers the torment gladly.

Bertrand Russell

I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of singing. I would feel milk and love flowing from me to her as once it had flowed to me. It emptied me. As the baby fed, I seemed slowly to grow empty of myself, as if in the presence of that long flow of love even grief could not stand.

Wendell Berry

Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.

Pim Fortuyn

i want to be stronger, so i can protect what i love more.

Hiroko Sakai

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

E. P. Thompson

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.

Elisha Cuthbert

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Ray Bradbury