Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.

Juliet Marillier

The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature

John Berger, And Our Faces, My H

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

William Butler Yeats

Home is pretty utopian.

Scott Adams

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

Eric Hoffer

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

John Dryden

To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the cat without a grin and the grin without a cat are equally set aside as purely mathematical fantasies.

Sir Arthur Eddington, The Expand

Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.

Goldie Hawn

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

Mignon McLaughlin

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

Freddy Adu