Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

Louisa May Alcott

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Ivan Turgenev

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Your defeats in life's battlefieldWill soon be ending,Because your mind is no longer indifferent To your heart's spontaneous enthusiasm.

Sri Chinmoy

Architecture is petrified music.

Felix E. Schelling

True recollection has characteristics by which it can be easily recognized. It produces a certain effect which I do not know how to explain, but which is well understood by those who have experienced it. . . . It is true that recollection has several degrees, and that in the beginning these great effects are not felt, because it is not yet profound enough. But support the pain which you first feel in recollecting yourself, despise the rebellion of nature, overcome the resistance of the body, which loves a liberty which is its ruin, learn self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantages which you gain from it. As soon as you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey: and this will take place without effort or care on your part. God thus rewards the violence which your soul has been doing to itself; and gives to it such a domination over the senses that a sign is enough when it desires to recollect itself, for them to obey and so gather themselves together. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.

Teresa of Avila

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly let him rejoice.

Pope Paul VI

He had reached his goal. He had climbed the unclimbable mountain

Christopher Paolini

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

George Lucas

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

Carla Gugino