Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

Ennobling this dull pomp, the life of kings, By contemplation of diviner things.

Matthew Arnold

In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you -- tripping on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as Leif the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

William Shakespeare

My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'

Mindy Kaling

A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.

Ivan Shaffer

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

Jon Krakauer

Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.

Virgil

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Johann von Goethe

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

Colin Quinn

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

Kurt Vonnegut

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

George Wald

A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride.

Newton Gatambia