Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Charles Dickens

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Samuel Johnson

Other nations have tried to check... the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.

John Louis O'Sullivan

Our job is like a baker's work -- his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

Thomas Jefferson

There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.

Tori Amos

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Wayne Dyer

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

Steve Coogan

How can what an Englishman believes be heresy? It is a contradiction in terms.

George Bernard Shaw

I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.

Janna Levin

I don't exist when you don't see me.

Sisters Of Mercy