The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

Am auzit sau am citit c? filoanele de aur au uneori la suprafa?? un înveli? de cuar?, din care e greu s? extragi metalul. Presupun c? ?i inima ta are un asemenea înveli?; în?untru se afl? metalul pre?ios, dar afurisita asta de coaj? nu s-a topit de tot...

Henryk Sienkiewicz

This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?

Jerry Lewis

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

Jim Carrey

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

John Galsworthy

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Ibn Gabirol

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals and is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, and if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

William Blake

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.

Cassandra Clare

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

Charles E. Wilson

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy. Government has no such office. To protect the weak and the minority from the impositions of the strong and the majorityto prevent any one from positively working to render the people unhappy, to do the labor not of an officious inter-meddler in the affairs of men, but of a prudent watchman who prevents outragethese are rather the proper duties of a government. Under the specious pretext of effecting the happiness of the whole community, nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government have been carried through. The legislature may, and should, when such things fall in its way, lend its potential weight to the cause of virtue and happinessbut to legislate in direct behalf of those objects is never available, and rarely effects any even temporary benefit.

Walt Whitman

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Samuel Butler