Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

William Wordsworth

We are the lucky ones for we shall die, as there is an infinite number of possible forms of DNA all but a few billions of which will never burst into consciousness.

Frank Close

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

William Hazlitt

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

David Baldacci

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

Tim Roth

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

Archibald MacLeish

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

John Wooden

While the daimonic cannot be said to be evil in itself, it confronts us with the troublesome dilemma of whether it is to be used with awareness, a sense of responsibility and the significance of life, or blindly and rashly.

Rollo May

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

Thomas S. Monson

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

Willa Cather

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

Helen Rowland