Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

Gary Zukav

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, First publi

You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.

C.S. Lewis

One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.''But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...''Life won't leave one alone as it is.

Leo Tolstoy

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Voltaire

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

George Shinn

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

Bela Lugosi

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Hannah More

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Arthur Balfour

To be on an island inhabited byartificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those imageswas worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps wealways want the person we love to have the existenceof a ghost).

Adolfo Bioy Casares

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.

Julio Iglesias