It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

L'Wren Scott

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

Source Unknown

If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.

Katherine Jenkins

Banii pot aduce fericire numai acolo unde n-o poate aduce nimic altceva. In afara de anumite inlesniri, banii nu pot oferi bucurii adevarate

Jane Austen

Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in the universe is as inevitable as the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Sun.

Brian Swimme

A cemetery is the only place where people don't try to keep up with the Joneses.

Source Unknown

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.

Du Fu

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Christopher Hitchens

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

Georgie Fame

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

Chuck Palahniuk

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Sir Richard Steele

...And we pray, not for newearth or heaven, but to be quietin heart, and in eye clear.What we need is here.

Wendell Berry