Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

Kenneth Koch

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Karl Kraus

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

Sidney Sheldon

Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she isn't just beautiful in spite of the scar, she's somehow beautiful with it, like Lynn with her buzzed hair, like Tobias with the memories of his father's cruelty that he wears like armor, like my mother in her plain gray clothing.

Veronica Roth

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Albert Schweitzer

We should live, my Lesbia, and loveAnd value all the talk of stricterOld men at a single penny.Suns can set and rise again;For us, once our brief light has set,There's one unending night for sleeping.Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred,Then another thousand, then a second hundred,Then still another thousand, then a hundred;Then, when we've made many thousands,We'll muddle them so as not to knowOr lest some villain overlook usKnowing the total of our kisses.(Translated by Guy Lee)

Catullus

People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

Dan Farmer

As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn't matte how others see you

Wendy Mass

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Jacqueline Schiff

For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word meaning it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Paulo Coelho