What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

Susan Sontag

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

Kate Beckinsale

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Benjamin Franklin

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

William Mcilvanney

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. New Testament

Bible

The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.

Taylor Caldwell, On Growing Up T

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.

Malcolm Turnbull

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Sir Richard Steele

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

Rob Walton

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Gene Roddenberry

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Ralph Gerard