Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

Michael Haneke

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

Fiona Shaw

Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?

Mary Balogh

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

Dean Koontz

A good name is better than precious ointment. Ecclesiastes 7:1

Bible

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Pat Riley

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

Johann von Goethe

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Oscar Wilde

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Christopher Hitchens

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Sarojini Naidu