To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Norman Douglas

I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

Phil Lesh

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Joseph Joubert

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

Marquis de Sade

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

William Shakespeare

Ese mismo año, un grupo de astrónomos encabezado por Cornell H. Mayer recibió ondas deradio procedentes de Venus y quedó atónito al ver que la intensidad de esas ondas equivalía a la quecabía esperar de un objeto mucho más caliente de lo que se creía que era Venus. De ser eso cierto, nopodría haber océano planetario en Venus; de hecho, no podía haber agua líquida de ninguna clase (y asíse echó a perder mi pobre novela, que sólo hacía dos años que había sido publicada).

Isaac Asimov

I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

Naguib Mahfouz

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

Kofi Annan

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

Jane Austen

Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.

Dan Wheldon

I sometimes skip meals when I travel.

Amy Smart

Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.

Genevieve Gorder