I hope the readers of this book may experience the same benevolent and elevating feeling which I have experienced when I was working on its creation, and which I experience again and again, when I reread it every day, working on the enlargement and improvement of the previous edition.

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.

J.K. Rowling

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.

Albert Einstein

The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.

Scott Adams

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest

William Shakespeare

Black history is American history.

Morgan Freeman

According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.

Virchand Gandhi

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

Source Unknown

I was arrested for selling illegalsized paper.

Steven Wright

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

Napoleon Hill

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn, The humble sheep a threat'ning horn: While the Lily white shall in love delight, Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

William Blake

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper