I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

Marlene Dietrich

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

William J. Clinton

Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.

Proverb

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Mao Zedong

In thy foul throat thou liest.

William Shakespeare

Anatomy is destiny.

Sigmund Freud

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

L.M. Montgomery

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

Hale White

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

Kim Wilde

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

Jodi Picoult