Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

William Blake

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

Source Unknown

It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl.

Cassandra Clare

Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Tobias S. Gibson

God is writing His story on the pages of our lives.

Rick Anderson

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

Jennifer Lopez

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Euripides

Granny looked up at the zombie. He was - or, technically, had been - a tall, handsome man. He still was, only now he looked like someone who had walked through a room full of cobwebs.'What's your name, dead man?' she said.

Terry Pratchett

Do notBlame the world.Find a solution.

Sri Chinmoy

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Sirach

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

Parker Posey

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Saint Francis de Sales